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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 164, 2017
5th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics
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Article Number | 06003 | |
Number of page(s) | 9 | |
Section | Mini workshop Physics at FAIR-NICA-SPS-RHIC | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716406003 | |
Published online | 05 December 2017 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716406003
Open Heavy Flavor and Quarkonia Results at RHIC
1
Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
2
RIKEN-BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
a e-mail: rachid.nouicer@bnl.gov
Published online: 5 December 2017
RHIC experiments carry out a comprehensive physics program which studies open heavy flavor and quarkonium production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The discovery at RHIC of large high-pT suppression and flow of electrons from heavy quarks flavors have altered our view of the hot and dense matter formed in central Au + Au collisions at GeV. These results suggest a large energy loss and flow of heavy quarks in the hot, dense matter. In recent years, the RHIC experiments upgraded the detectors; (1) PHENIX Collaboration installed silicon vertex tracker (VTX) at mid-rapidity region and forward silicon vertex tracker (FVTX) at the forward rapidity region, and (2) STAR Collaboration installed the heavy flavor tracker (HFT) and the muon telescope detector (MTD) both at the mid-rapidity region. With these new upgrades, both experiments have collected large data samples. These new detectors enhance the capability of heavy flavor measurements via precision tracking. The PHENIX experiments established measurements of ψ(1S) and ψ(2S) production as a function of system size, p + p, p + Al, p + Au, and 3He + Au collisions at
GeV. In p/3He + A collisions at forward rapidity, we observe no difference in the ψ(2S)/ψ(1S) ratio relative to p + p collisions. At backward rapidity, where the comoving particle density is higher, we find that the ψ(2S) is preferentially suppressed by a factor of two. STAR Collaboration presents the first J/ψ and ϒ measurements in the di-muon decay channel in Au + Au collisions at
GeV at mid-rapidity at RHIC. We observe clear J/ψ RAA suppression and qualitatively well described by transport models simultaneously accounting for dissociation and regeneration processes.
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