| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1854030 | Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics | 2009 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The current status of charm and bottom production measurements at RHIC is summarized. Heavy-flavor data from p+p collisions at s=200GeV provide a crucial testing ground for perturbative QCD calculations and serve as a baseline for measurements in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Due to their large mass heavy quarks are produced in hard parton scattering processes in the earliest phase of a nucleus-nucleus collisions such that they can be used to probe the hot and dense medium that is formed in the course of Au+Au collisions at RHIC.
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Authors
R. Averbeck,