Heavy-flavour production in hot quark matter

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent experimental results on heavy-flavour production in hot quark matter from RHIC and LHC, highlighting measurements of electrons, D mesons, and charm in jets to understand QCD processes.

Contribution

It presents new measurements of heavy-flavour particles at RHIC and LHC, including D mesons and charm content in jets, advancing understanding of QCD processes in hot quark matter.

Findings

Observation of single electrons and heavy-flavour correlations at RHIC.

First D meson signals from 7 TeV proton-proton collisions at LHC.

Evidence of gluon splitting contributions at LHC energies.

Abstract

Recent results from RHIC and first measurements from the ALICE experiment at the CERN-Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on open heavy-flavour are presented. We focus on RHIC measurements of single electrons and jet-like heavy-flavour particle correlations. First D meson signals from 7 TeV proton-proton collisions in ALICE are discussed. Next-to-leading-order QCD processes, such as gluon splitting, become important at LHC energies and its contribution can be accesses by the measurement of the "charm content in jets".