Open and hidden heavy flavor measurements at RHIC

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent measurements of open and hidden heavy flavor particles at RHIC, highlighting their roles in probing the properties of quark-gluon plasma through experimental results and theoretical comparisons.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive summary of the latest experimental data on heavy flavor at RHIC and discusses their implications for understanding quark-gluon plasma properties.

Findings

Heavy flavor measurements are sensitive to QGP energy loss.

Quarkonia dissociation indicates QGP temperature.

Experimental results are compared with theoretical models.

Abstract

Quarks of heavy flavors are useful tool to study quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. Due to their high mass and early production time, heavy quarks experience the entire evolution of the system created in these collisions. Open heavy flavor meson measurements are sensitive to the energy loss in the QGP, while quarkonia are sensitive to the temperature of the QGP as they dissociate because of Debye-like screening of color charges. This presentation is a summary of the latest heavy flavor studies performed at RHIC. Results from both STAR and PHENIX experiments are presented, compared to theoretical calculations and the implications discussed.