Speaker
Cesar Luiz da Silva
(Los Alamos National Lab)
Description
Forward and backward rapidity measurements in heavy ion asymmetric
collisions offer the opportunity to study the nuclear modification of
particle yields versus path length, time inside the medium, particle
densities and different mixtures of cold nuclear matter and quark-gluon plasma effects in the same collision. The PHENIX Experiment collected data from a large sample of Cu+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV and, for the first time, with
forward vertex detectors (FVTX) which enabled the study of displaced
vertex muon decays from heavy flavor at backward and forward
rapidities. Charm and bottom yields can be separated in inclusive single
muon yields and bottom yield can also be obtained from J/$\psi$ vertex
displacements. The status of this analysis will be presented.
| On behalf of collaboration: | PHENIX |
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Primary author
Cesar Luiz da Silva
(Los Alamos National Lab)
