Heavy-quark production and elliptic flow in Au + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=62.4 GeV (CROSBI ID 226426)
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Adare, A. ; ... ; Makek, Mihael ; ... ; Zelenski, A.
PHENIX Collaboration
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Heavy-quark production and elliptic flow in Au + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=62.4 GeV
We present measurements of electrons and positrons from the semileptonic decays of heavy- flavor hadrons at midrapidity (|y|< 0.35) in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=62.4 GeV. The data were collected in 2010 by the PHENIX experiment that included the new hadron-blind detector. The invariant yield of electrons from heavy-flavor decays is measured as a function of transverse momentum in the range 1<peT<5 GeV/c. The invariant yield per binary collision is slightly enhanced above the p+p reference in Au+Au 0%–20%, 20%–40%, and 40%–60% centralities at a comparable level. At this low beam energy this may be a result of the interplay between initial-state Cronin effects, final-state flow, and energy loss in medium. The v2 of electrons from heavy-flavor decays is nonzero when averaged between 1.3<peT<2.5 GeV/c for 0%–40% centrality collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=62.4 GeV. For 20%–40% centrality collisions, the v2 at sqrt(s_NN)=62.4 GeV is smaller than that for heavy-flavor decays at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV. The v2 of the electrons from heavy-flavor decay at the lower beam energy is also smaller than v2 for pions. Both results indicate that the heavy quarks interact with the medium formed in these collisions, but they may not be at the same level of thermalization with the medium as observed at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV.
QGP ; Heavy flavor ; single electrons ; Raa ; v2 ; PHENIX
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Podaci o izdanju
91 (4)
2015.
044907
19
objavljeno
0556-2813
1089-490X
10.1103/PhysRevC.91.044907