2004/12/31 by R. L. Thews, R L Thews · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #Flavour #Hadronization #Heavy ion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Kinetic energy #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quark #Quarkonium #Quark–gluon plasma #Strange matter #Thermalisation #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/31/6/003
published as J.Phys. G31 (2005) S641-S650 · Based on invited plenary talk at Strange Quark Matter 2004, Cape Town, South Africa, September 15-20, 2004, references completed, published in J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 31 (2005) S641-S649
openalex publication_date 2005/05/23 · arxiv created 2005/05/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A brief survey of the role of heavy flavours as a probe of the state of matter produced by high-energy heavy-ion collisions is presented. Specific examples include energy loss, initial-state gluon saturation, thermalization and flow. The formation of quarkonium bound states from interactions in which multiple heavy–quark-antiquark pairs are initially produced is examined in general. Results from statistical hadronization and kinetic models are summarized. New predictions from the kinetic model for J/ψ at RHIC are presented.