Phenomenology of Heavy Flavors in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

TL;DR

This paper discusses recent experimental results from heavy-ion collisions at RHIC, focusing on how heavy-flavor particles like quarkonia and D/B mesons reveal properties of the dense matter created.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of heavy-flavor probes such as quarkonia, D, and B mesons, including their nuclear modification factors and elliptic flow, with theoretical interpretations.

Findings

Nuclear modification factors vary with centrality, rapidity, and transverse momentum.

Elliptic flow coefficients indicate collective behavior of heavy-flavor particles.

Results suggest strong interactions between heavy quarks and the quark-gluon plasma.

Abstract

Some recent experimental results obtained in collisions of heavy nuclei ($\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV) at BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) are discussed. The probes of dense matter created in heavy-ion collision by quarkonia, $D$ and $B$ mesons containing heavy charm and beauty quarks are considered. The centrality, rapidity and transverse momentum dependences of the nuclear modification factor and elliptic flow coefficient are presented and their possible theoretical interpretation is provided.