Published February 15, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Open Heavy Flavor Production in PHENIX

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 (United States)

Description

Heavy flavor production can be investigated in PHENIX via the pT spectra of single electrons. While the total charm yield measured from the Au+Au collisions taken by PHENIX in 2002 scales with the number of binary collisions, single electron pT spectra suggest a strong suppression of the heavy flavor yield at high pT. We present an analysis of the centrality dependence of the electron spectra from heavy quark decays obtained from the high statistics data sample of Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV taken in 2004

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.11.045;
PII
S0375-9474(06)00821-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
783
Journal Issue
1-4
Journal Page Range
p. 219-224
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL

Conference

Title
2. international conference on hard and electromagnetic probes of high-energy nuclear collisions
Dates
9-16 Jun 2006
Place
Pacific Grove, CA (United States)

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.