Measurements of heavy flavor and di-electron production at STAR

• Authors: Gang Wang
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Heavy quarks are produced early in the relativistic heavy ion collisions, and provide an excellent probe into the hot and dense nuclear matter created at RHIC. In these proceedings, we will discuss recent STAR measurements of heavy flavor production, to investigate the heavy quark interaction with the medium. Electromagnetic probes, such as electrons, provide information on the various stages of the medium evolution without modification by final stage interactions. Di-electron production measurements by STAR will also be discussed.

Keywords

EN

heavy flavor; di-electron

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1230-1233

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2012

online

4 - 12 - 2012

Contributors

author

Gang Wang

• Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-012-0052-9