Study of Interaction of the Heavy Quarks with Nuclear Matter in Cu+Cu at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

TL;DR

This paper investigates how heavy quarks interact with nuclear matter by analyzing azimuthal correlations of electrons and hadrons in Cu+Cu collisions at RHIC, revealing potential modifications in particle correlation peaks.

Contribution

It provides new insights into heavy quark interactions with nuclear matter through correlation measurements in Cu+Cu collisions at 200 GeV.

Findings

Possible modification of the away-side peak observed.

Azimuthal correlation functions show signs of medium effects.

Results contribute to understanding quark-gluon plasma properties.

Abstract

In this paper we present the study of the azimuthal correlation function of non-photonic electrons with low-pT hadrons produced in Cu+Cu collision at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV measured by STAR experiment at RHIC. Possible modification of the awayside peak is observed.