Phenomenology of Heavy Flavors in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Abstract

Some recent experimental results obtained in collisions of heavy nuclei ($\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV) at BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) are discussed. The probes of dense matter created in heavy-ion collision by quarkonia, $D$ and $B$ mesons containing heavy charm and beauty quarks are considered. The centrality, rapidity and transverse momentum dependences of the nuclear modification factor and elliptic flow coefficient are presented and their possible theoretical interpretation is provided.

Comments: Based on the lecture given at the Xth International School-Seminar "The Actual Problems of Microworld Physics", Gomel, Belarus, July 15 - 26, 2009