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Article
Heavy-quark production and elliptic flow in Au plus Au collisions at root(NN)-N-S=62.4 GeV
Physical Review C
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
4-28-2015
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevC.91.044907
Abstract
We present measurements of electrons and positrons from the semileptonic decays of heavy-flavor hadrons at midrapidity (vertical bar gamma vertical bar < 0.35) in Au + Au collisions at root(NN)-N-S = 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 < p(T)(e) < 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 v(2) of electrons from heavy-flavor decays is nonzero when averaged between 1.3 < p(T)(e) < 2.5 GeV/c for 0%-40% centrality collisions at root(NN)-N-S = 62.4 GeV. For 20%-40% centrality collisions, the v(2) at root(NN)-N-S = 62.4 GeV is smaller than that for heavy-flavor decays at root(NN)-N-S = 200 GeV. The v2 of the electrons from heavy-flavor decay at the lower beam energy is also smaller than v(2) 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 root(NN)-N-S = 200 GeV.
Copyright Owner
American Physical Society
Copyright Date
2015
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Andrew Adare, Lei Ding, Alan Dion, John C. Hill, et al.. "Heavy-quark production and elliptic flow in Au plus Au collisions at root(NN)-N-S=62.4 GeV" Physical Review C Vol. 91 Iss. 4 (2015) p. 044907 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/craig-ogilvie/52/
This is an article from Physical Review C 91 (2015): 044907, doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.91.044907. Posted with permission.