Abstract
The use of probes containing heavy quarks is one of the pillars for the study of medium formed in high energy nuclear collisions. The conceptual ideas formulated more than two decades ago, such as quark mass hierarchy of the energy that the probe lose in the media and color screening of bound heavy quarkonia states, have being challenged by the measurements performed at RHIC and LHC. A summary of the most recent experimental observations involving charm and bottom quarks in pp, pA, and AA collisions from collisions energies extending from √sNN =200 GeV to 8 TeV is presented. This manuscript also discuss possibilities of new measurements which can be at reach with increased statistics and detector upgrades.
Highlights
The use of probes containing heavy quarks is one of the pillars for the study of medium formed in high energy nuclear collisions
Heavy flavor is mainly produced from gluons at RHIC and LHC
As the energy increases at Tevatron and LHC, the gluon splitting contribution becomes dominant [8]. This is a fundamental difference between HF production at RHIC and LHC
Summary
The use of probes containing heavy quarks is one of the pillars for the study of medium formed in high energy nuclear collisions. The characterization of media formed in high energy collisions, such as the Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP), relies on the use of a probe which is produced and do not shower in the vacuum before the medium formation. Heavy flavor is mainly produced from gluons at RHIC and LHC.
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