Latest Heavy Flavor Results from the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC

摘要

HeavyquarkproductioncanbeusedasastringenttestofperturbativeQCDinproton-protoncollisions,andisavaluablereferenceforthestudyofheavyioncollisions.Innucleus-nucleuscollisions,themeasurementofheavyquarkproductionprovidesapowerfultoolforstudyingthepropertiesofhotanddensemattercreatedinthesecollisions.ThePHENIXexperimenthasstudiedmanyimportantobservablesrelatedtoheavyflavorvialeptonicmeasurements.Suchobservablesincludetheinvariantyieldandazimuthalanisotropyofelectronsfromnon-photonicsourcesandpromptsinglemuons,bothofwhicharedominatedbydecaysofDandBmesons.Complimentarytosingleleptonmeasurements,PHENIXhasmeasuredinvariantyield,flow,andpolarizationofvariousquarkoniastates.Suchmeasurementsprovideadditionalinsightintoheavyflavorproductionmechanisms.ThemostrecentPHENIXheavyflavorresultswillbepresented,andcomparedtovarioustheoreticalmodelpredictions...