Speaker
Mr
Xiaolong Chen
(University of Science and Technology of China)
Description
Heavy flavor quarks ($c$, $b$) are produced dominantly by the interactions of the initial incoming partons, and thus experience the entire evolution of the hot and dense medium created in high-energy nuclear collisions. Therefore, charm and bottom quarks are considered as an excellent probe to study the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). In this talk, we will report recent STAR measurements of open charm hadron production through full invariant mass reconstruction ($D^0$, $D^\pm$, $D_s^+$, $\Lambda_c^+$) and open bottom hadron production through their displaced decay daughters ($b \rightarrow D^{0},~e$) in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 200 GeV. The measurements of $D^0$, $D^\pm$, $b \rightarrow D^{0}$, $c/b \rightarrow e$ nuclear modification factors, $D_s^+/D^0$, $\Lambda_c^+/D^0$ ratios, and $D^0$, $c/b \rightarrow e$ directed, elliptic flow will be discussed in context of heavy flavor quark energy loss, transport in the QGP and final hadronization.
Primary author
Mr
Xiaolong Chen
(University of Science and Technology of China)