Speaker
Andre Mischke
(Universiteit Utrecht)
Description
Strongly interacting matter at high densities and temperatures can be created in high-energy collisions of heavy atomic nuclei. Heavy quarks (charm and beauty) provide particular good probes to study this so-called Quark-Gluon Plasma state and its evolution since they are predominately produced in initial hard partonic scattering processes in the early stages of the collision and thus
Since 2010 the Large Hadron Collider at CERN deliver proton-proton, proton-lead and lead-lead collision at an unprecedented energy. Especially, the measurement of heavy-flavour production in heavy-ion collisions allow studying the dynamical properties of the plasma phase, whereas measurements in proton-lead collisions provide access to cold nuclear matter effects in the initial state, and the particle yields in proton-proton serve as a baseline and provide crucial tests of perturbative QCD calculations.
The foreseen increase of the interaction rate for LHC run-3 after the second long shutdown in 2019/20 will require a significant upgrade of the experiments that will allow a substantial improvement of the current performances for the heavy flavour reconstruction capabilities.
In this contribution I will give an overview of recent results and the interpretation of the data.
Author
Andre Mischke
(Universiteit Utrecht)
