Heavy-flavour and quarkonia in heavy-ion collisions

TL;DR

This paper reviews how heavy-flavour and quarkonium production measurements in different collision systems at the LHC help explore the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, revealing insights into high-density QCD matter.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of experimental results on heavy-flavour and quarkonium production from ALICE, ATLAS, and CMS, highlighting their implications for QGP studies.

Findings

Suppression patterns of quarkonium states in Pb-Pb collisions

Modification of heavy-flavour hadron yields in different collision systems

Insights into QGP properties from experimental data

Abstract

The comparison of heavy-flavour hadron production in proton-proton, proton-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC offers the opportunity to investigate the properties of the high-density colour-deconfined state of strongly-interacting matter (Quark Gluon Plasma, QGP) that is expected to be formed in high-energy collisions of heavy nuclei. A review of the main quarkonium and open heavy-flavour results obtained by the ALICE, ATLAS and CMS experiments is presented.