https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3819-5
Review
Heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton–proton to heavy-ion collisions
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Research Division, ExtreMe Matter Institute (EMMI), GSI Helmholzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
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Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris–Saclay, Palaiseau, France
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Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique (LAPTh), Université de Savoie, CNRS, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
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Sezione di Torino, INFN, Turin, Italy
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European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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IPNO, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris–Saclay, 91406, Orsay Cedex, France
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Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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Sezione di Padova, INFN, Padua, Italy
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Institute of Physics Belgrade, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Departamento de Física de Partículas, IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Institute of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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Department of Applied Physics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
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FIAS, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Frankfurt, Germany
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Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Department of High Energy Physics, Saint-Petersburg State University, Ulyanovskaya 1, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Departamento de Física, Centro Científico-Tecnológico de Valparaíso, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaiso, Chile
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INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris–Saclay, Orsay, France
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Faculty of Science, Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, USA
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Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Université Clermont Auvergne, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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IRFU/SPhN, CEA Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
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Iowa State University, Ames, USA
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Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
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Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
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Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, USA
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IPN-Lyon, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
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Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA
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Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA
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Physics Department, University of California, Davis, USA
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Institute of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Key Laboratory of Quark and Lepton Physics (MOE), Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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Physics Department, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
* e-mail: laure.marie.massacrier@cern.ch
Received:
15
June
2015
Accepted:
1
December
2015
Published online:
29
February
2016
This report reviews the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics, from the proton and nucleus structure at high energy to deconfinement and the properties of the Quark–Gluon Plasma. Emphasis is given to the lessons learnt from LHC Run 1 results, which are reviewed in a global picture with the results from SPS and RHIC at lower energies, as well as to the questions to be addressed in the future. The report covers heavy flavour and quarkonium production in proton–proton, proton–nucleus and nucleus–nucleus collisions. This includes discussion of the effects of hot and cold strongly interacting matter, quarkonium photoproduction in nucleus–nucleus collisions and perspectives on the study of heavy flavour and quarkonium with upgrades of existing experiments and new experiments. The report results from the activity of the SaporeGravis network of the I3 Hadron Physics programme of the European Union 7 Framework Programme.
© The Author(s), 2016