scholarly journals Gluon contribution to open heavy-meson production in heavy-ion collisions

2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanshan Cao ◽  
Guang-You Qin ◽  
Xin-Nian Wang
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Meson Production ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Heavy Meson ◽  
Gluon Contribution ◽  
Ion Collisions

scholarly journals Electromagnetic effects on meson production: a new tool for studying the space-time evolution of heavy ion collisions

2016 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 05016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Rybicki ◽  
Antoni Szczurek ◽  
Mariola Kłusek-Gawenda ◽  
Nikolaos Davis ◽  
Vitalii Ozvenchuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Evolution ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Meson Production ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Electromagnetic Effects ◽  
Space Time Evolution

scholarly journals Highlights from PHENIX at RHIC

2018 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Rachid Nouicer
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Quark ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Meson Production ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Dense Medium ◽  
Heavy Flavor ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Rapidity Region ◽  
Ion Collisions

Hadrons conveying strange quarks or heavy quarks are essential probes of the hot and dense medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. With hidden strangeness, ϕ meson production and its transport in the nuclear medium have attracted high interest since its discovery. Heavy quark-antiquark pairs, like charmonium and bottomonium mesons, are mainly produced in initial hard scattering processes of partons. While some of the produced pairs form bound quarkonia, the vast majority hadronize into particles carrying open heavy flavor. In this context, the PHENIX collaboration carries out a comprehensive physics program which studies the ϕ meson production, and heavy flavor production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC. In recent years, the PHENIX experiment upgraded the detector in installing silicon vertex tracker (VTX) at mid-rapidity region and forward silicon vertex tracker (FVTX) at the forward rapidity region. With these new upgrades, the experiment has collected large data samples, and enhanced the capability of heavy flavor measurements via precision tracking. This paper summarizes the latest PHENIX results concerning ϕ meson, open and closed charm and beauty heavy quark production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These results are presented as a function of rapidity, energy and system size, and their interpretation with respect to the current theoretical understanding.

TWO-PROTON CORRELATION FUNCTION FOR THE pp → pp + η AND pp → pp + pions REACTIONS

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 660-662
Author(s):  
◽  
PAWEŁ KLAJA ◽  
PAWEŁ MOSKAL
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Function ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Meson Production ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Peak Structure ◽  
Complete Measurement ◽  
First Time

For the very first time, the correlation femtoscopy method is applied to a kinematically complete measurement of meson production in the collisions of hadrons. The shape of the two-proton correlation function derived for the pp → ppη reaction differs from that for the pp → pp(pions) and both do not show a peak structure opposite to results determined for inclusive measurements of heavy ion collisions.

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