Measurement of electrons from open heavy-flavor hadron decays in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV with the STAR detector
- We report a new measurement of the production of electrons from open heavy-flavor hadron decays (HFEs) at mid-rapidity (|y|< 0.7) in Au+Au collisions at sNN−−−√=200 GeV. Invariant yields of HFEs are measured for the transverse momentum range of 3.5<pT<9 GeV/c in various configurations of the collision geometry. The HFE yields in head-on Au+Au collisions are suppressed by approximately a factor of 2 compared to that in p+p collisions scaled by the average number of binary collisions, indicating strong interactions between heavy quarks and the hot and dense medium created in heavy-ion collisions. Comparison of these results with models provides additional tests of theoretical calculations of heavy quark energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma.
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-861892 |
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URL: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06590v2 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2303.06590 |
ArXiv Id: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06590v2 |
Parent Title (English): | arXiv |
Publisher: | arXiv |
Document Type: | Preprint |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2023/05/09 |
Date of first Publication: | 2023/05/09 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Creating Corporation: | STAR Collaboration |
Release Date: | 2024/07/11 |
Issue: | 2303.06590v2 |
Edition: | Version 2 |
Page Number: | 18 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 17 |
Institutes: | Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |