System-size dependence of open-heavy-flavor production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at √sNN =200 GeV

Adare, A. and Afanasiev, S. and Aidala, C. and Ajitanand, N. N. and Akiba, Y. and Al-Bataineh, H. and Alexander, J. and Aoki, K. and Apadula, N. and Aphecetche, L. and Armendariz, R. and Aronson, S. H. and Asai, J. and Atomssa, E. T. and Averbeck, R. and Awes, T. C. and Azmoun, B. and Babintsev, V. and Baksay, G. and Baksay, L. and Baldisseri, A. and Barish, K. N. and Barnes, P. D. and Bassalleck, B. and Bathe, S. and Batsouli, S. and Baublis, V. and Baumgart, S. and Bazilevsky, A. and Belikov, S. and Csanád, Máté and Csörgő, Tamás and Dávid, Gábor and Kiss, Ádám and Ster, András and Sziklai, János István and Tarján, Péter and Vértesi, Róbert and Zimányi, József and Nagy, Márton (2014) System-size dependence of open-heavy-flavor production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at √sNN =200 GeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW C, 90 (3). ISSN 2469-9985

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Abstract

The PHENIX Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured open-heavy-flavor production in Cu + Cu collisions at v root s(NN) = 200 GeV through the measurement of electrons at midrapidity that originate from semileptonic decays of charm and bottom hadrons. In peripheral Cu + Cu collisions an enhanced production of electrons is observed relative to p + p collisions scaled by the number of binary collisions. In the transverse momentum range from 1 to 5 GeV/c the nuclear modification factor is R-AA similar to 1.4. As the system size increases to more central Cu + Cu collisions, the enhancement gradually disappears and turns into a suppression. For p(T) > 3 GeV/c, the suppression reaches R-AA similar to 0.8 in the most central collisions. The p(T) and centrality dependence of R-AA in Cu + Cu collisions agree quantitatively with R-AA in d + Au and Au + Au collisions, if compared at a similar number of participating nucleons < N-part >.

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