@inproceedings{cf583fef3f90448c828bb5617fb1def5,
title = "Study of charm and beauty using electron-D0 azimuthal correlations in the STAR experiment at RHIC",
abstract = "The energy loss of heavy quarks in the hot and dense matter created in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC, can be used to probe the properties of the medium. Both charm and beauty quarks contribute to the non-photonic electrons through their semi-leptonic decays. It is essential to determine experimentally the relative contributions of charm and beauty quarks to understand the observed suppression of non-photonic electrons at high p T in central Au+Au collisions. The azimuthal angular correlations of non-photonic electrons with hadrons as well as with the reconstructed D 0 allow to disentangle the contributions of charm and beauty to the electron spectrum. We discuss the STAR measurement of non-photonic electron-D0 and non-photonic electron-hadron azimuthal correlations in p+p collisions at 200 GeV and explore the consequences for the heavy flavour suppression in heavy ion collisions at RHIC.",
keywords = "Beauty, Charm, Jet quenching, Quark gluon plasma, RHIC",
author = "Sonia Kabana",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1063/1.3575067",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780735408999",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
pages = "477--479",
booktitle = "IX International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, QCHS IX",
note = "9th International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, QCHS IX ; Conference date: 30-08-2010 Through 03-09-2010",
}