Heavy Flavor Probes of Quark-Gluon Plasma

Abstract

Some aspects of heavy flavor probes of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) including quarkonia and open heavy flavor D- and B-mesons, aimed to study the properties of QGP, are discussed in this lecture note.

Comments: Lecture given at International school-seminar "New Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics at External Conditions" Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, May 3-6, 2009; v.2: minor corrections in the text