Heavy-flavor suppression and azimuthal anisotropy in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN=2.76TeV with the ALICE detector

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Heavy-flavor hadron production studies in Pb–Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV with the 2010 and 2011 data samples are presented. The measurements are performed with the ALICE detector in various decay channels and in a wide kinematic range. Heavy-flavor hadrons exhibit a suppression in the most central Pb–Pb collisions that amounts to a factor 3–5 for p T ∼ 8 – 10 GeV / c . The second harmonic of the azimuthal distribution Fourier decomposition, v 2 , is non-zero for non-central collisions at intermediate p T ( ∼ 3 GeV / c ).