Heavy flavors and quarkonia: highlights, open questions, and perspectives

TL;DR

This paper reviews experimental findings on heavy-flavor and quarkonium production in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC, highlighting current understanding, open questions, and future research directions.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of phenomenology and experimental results, emphasizing observables that inform about different collision stages and future perspectives.

Findings

Summarizes key experimental results from RHIC and LHC.

Identifies open questions in heavy-ion collision phenomenology.

Discusses future measurement and modeling prospects.

Abstract

An overview of the phenomenology and experimental results on open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in heavy-ion collisions at the RHIC and at the LHC energies is presented, with special emphasis on observables that carry information from the different collision stages. Perspective for future measurements and phenomenological modeling, that will shed light on the current open question in heavy-ion collisions, will be also discussed.