High-mass dimuon, B anti-B and B --> J/Psi production in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus interactions

Abstract

The potential of B-physics in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is discussed. The different mechanisms of heavy quark production at high energies are considered. We analyze the sensitivity of high-mass mu+mu- pairs from BBbar semileptonic decays and secondary J/Psi's from single B decays to the medium-induced bottom quark energy loss at LHC energies.

Comments: Talk given at International Workshop on Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, Palaiseau, France, September 4-7, 2001 ; 6 pages including 4 eps-figures