https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0121-6
Regular Article – Experimental Physics
v2 and RAA of non-photonic single electrons: which restriction do the current measurements pose on the production of charm, beauty?
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bldg 510A, Upton, NY, 11792, USA
* e-mail: laue@bnl.gov
Received:
3
August
2006
Published online:
14
November
2006
In relativistic heavy ion collisions, heavy flavor is expected to result predominately from initial hard parton–parton scatterings. Hence, in the absence of later stage effects, the production of heavy flavor in A+A collisions can be viewed as a superposition of N+N collisions. Measurements of v2 or RAA of heavy flavor (or their decay electrons) in A+A collisions violate the simple superposition picture and therefore present themselves as probes of the medium formed in such collisions. On the basis of the measured v2 and RAA of non-photonic single electrons in A+A collisions at RHIC, we will investigate the interplay between these observables as well as the restrictions they pose for charm and bottom production.
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