Erratum to: Evidence of Mass Ordering of Charm and Bottom Quark Energy Loss in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC (The European Physical Journal C, (2022), 82, 12, (1150), 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11003-7)

In the original version of this article, the following authors were missing: X. Bai University of Science and Technology of China, Y. Cheng and X. Wu University of California, And Also, the wrong institute is used for author Y. H. Leung. It should be: Y. H. Leung University of Heidelberg, The original article has been corrected. The publisher apologizes for the inconvenience caused.

Partons traversing the strongly interacting medium produced in heavy-ion collisions are expected to lose energy depending on their color charge and mass. We measure the nuclear modification factors for charm- and bottom-decay electrons, defined as the ratio of yields, divided by the number of binary nucleon–nucleon collisions, in sNN=200 GeV Au+Au collisions to p+p collisions (RAA), or in central to peripheral Au+Au collisions (RCP). We find the bottom-decay electron RAA and RCP to be significantly higher than those of charm-decay electrons. Model calculations including mass-dependent parton energy loss in a strongly coupled medium are consistent with the measured data. These observations provide evidence of mass ordering of charm and bottom quark energy loss when traversing through the strongly coupled medium created in heavy-ion collisions.