An experimental review of open heavy flavor and quarkonium production at RHIC

2020-09-12 03:32ZeBoTangWangMeiZhaYiFeiZhang
Nuclear Science and Techniques 2020年8期

Ze-Bo Tang· Wang-Mei Zha · Yi-Fei Zhang

Abstract Open heavy flavors and quarkonia are unique probes of the hot-dense medium produced in heavy-ion collisions. Their production in p+p collisions also constitutes an important test of QCD.In this paper,we review selected results on the open heavy flavors and quarkonia generated in the p+p and heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The physical implications are also discussed.

Keywords Heavy flavor · Heavy quark · Quarkonium ·Quark-gluon plasma · Heavy-ion collisions · QCD