Nuclear-Modification Factor for Open-Heavy-Flavor Production at Forward Rapidity in Cu+Cu Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

Nuclear-Modification Factor for Open-Heavy-Flavor Production at Forward Rapidity in Cu+Cu Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

Background: Heavy-flavor production in p+p collisions tests perturbative-quantum-chromodynamics (pQCD) calculations. Modification of heavy-flavor production in heavy-ion collisions relative to binary-collision scaling from p+p results, quantified with the nuclear-modification factor (R_AA), provides...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review. C 2012, Vol.86
Hauptverfasser: Adare, A., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N. N., Akiba, Y., Al-Bataineh, H., Alexander, J., Aoki, K., Aphecetche, Laurent, Armendariz, R., Aronson, S. H., Asai, J., Atomssa, E. T., Averbeck, R., Awes, T. C., Azmoun, B., Babintsev, V., Baksay, G., Baksay, L., Baldisseri, A., Barish, K. N., Barnes, P. D., Bassalleck, B., Bathe, S., Batsouli, S., Baublis, V., Bazilevsky, A., Belikov, S., Bennett, R., Berdnikov, Y., Bickley, A. A., Boissevain, J. G., Borel, H., Boyle, K., Brooks, M. L., Buesching, H., Bumazhnov, V., Bunce, G., Butsyk, S., Campbell, S., Chang, B. S., Charvet, J. -L., Chernichenko, S., Chi, C. Y., Chiba, J., Chiu, M., Choi, I. J., Chujo, T., Chung, P., Churyn, A., Cianciolo, V., Cleven, C. R., Cole, B. A., Comets, M. P., Constantin, P., Csanád, M., Csörgő, T., Dahms, T., Das, K., David, G., Deaton, M. B., Dehmelt, K., Delagrange, H., Denisov, A., d'Enterria, D., Deshpande, A., Desmond, E. J., Dietzsch, O., Dion, A., Donadelli, M., Drapier, O., Drees, A., Dubey, A. K., Durum, A., Dzhordzhadze, V., Efremenko, Y. V., Egdemir, J., Ellinghaus, F., Emam, W. S., Enokizono, A., En'Yo, H., Esumi, S., Eyser, K. O., Fields, D. E., Finger, M., Fleuret, F., Fokin, S. L., Fraenkel, Z., Frantz, J. E., Franz, A., Frawley, A. D., Fujiwara, K., Fukao, Y., Fusayasu, T., Gadrat, S., Garishvili, I., Glenn, A., Gong, H., Gonin, M., Gosset, J.
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Zusammenfassung:Background: Heavy-flavor production in p+p collisions tests perturbative-quantum-chromodynamics (pQCD) calculations. Modification of heavy-flavor production in heavy-ion collisions relative to binary-collision scaling from p+p results, quantified with the nuclear-modification factor (R_AA), provides information on both cold- and hot-nuclear-matter effects. Purpose: Determine transverse-momentum, pt, spectra and the corresponding R_AA for muons from heavy-flavor mesons decay in p+p and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV and y=1.65. Method: Results are obtained using the semi-leptonic decay of heavy-flavor mesons into negative muons. The PHENIX muon-arm spectrometers measure the p_T spectra of inclusive muon candidates. Backgrounds, primarily due to light hadrons, are determined with a Monte-Carlo calculation using a set of input hadron distributions tuned to match measured-hadron distributions in the same detector and statistically subtracted. Results: The charm-production cross section in p+p collisions at sqrt{s}=200 GeV, integrated over pt and in the rapidity range 1.4
ISSN:2469-9985
2469-9993
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.86.024909