Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on Open and Hidden Heavy Flavor Production at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper examines how cold nuclear matter effects influence the production of open and hidden heavy flavors in proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC, highlighting their potential impact on nucleus-nucleus collision outcomes.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of cold nuclear matter effects on heavy flavor production, emphasizing their significance alongside hot quark-gluon plasma effects in high-energy collisions.

Findings

Cold nuclear matter effects can significantly modify heavy flavor yields.

Results are presented for p+Pb collisions at 5 TeV at the LHC.

Implications for interpreting nucleus-nucleus collision data are discussed.

Abstract

We discuss a number of cold nuclear matter effects that can modify open heavy flavor and quarkonium production in proton-nucleus collisions and could thus also affect their production in nucleus-nucleus collisions, in addition to hot quark-gluon plasma production. We show some results for $p+$Pb collisions at sqrt s = 5 TeV at the LHC.