Heavy flavor puzzle from data measured at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: Analysis of the underlying effects

2014/07/14 by Magdalena Djordjevic, Marko Djordjevic, Marko Djordjević · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Heavy ion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ion #Meson #Nuclear physics #Observable #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Parton #Physics #Pion #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quark #Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.90.034910

published as Phys.Rev. C90 (2014) 034910 · 6 pages, 6 figures

arxiv created 2014/07/14 · openalex publication_date 2014/09/22 · arxiv updated 2014/11/07 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

This paper proposes an explanation for the long-standing heavy-flavor puzzle at RHIC energies. The authors argue convincingly that the similarity of the pion- and heavy-quark-suppression patterns can be traced back to the impact of fragmentation and decay functions.

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