1. Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
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Adare, A., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Al-Bataineh, H., Alexander, J., Al-Jamel, A., Aoki, K., Aphecetche, Laurent, Armendariz, R., Aronson, S.H., Asai, J., Atomssa, E. T., Averbeck, R., Awes, T.C., Azmoun, B., Babintsev, V., Baksay, G., Baksay, L., Baldisseri, A., Barish, K.N., Barnes, P.D., Bassalleck, B., Bathe, S., Batsouli, S., Baublis, V., Bauer, F., Bazilevsky, A., Belikov, S., Bennett, R., Berdnikov, Y., Bickley, A.A., Bjorndal, M.T., Boissevain, J.G., Borel, H., Boyle, K., Brooks, M.L., Brown, D.S., Bucher, D., Buesching, H., Bumazhnov, V., Bunce, G., Burward-Hoy, J.M., Butsyk, S., Campbell, S., Chai, J.-S., Chang, B.S., Charvet, J.-L., Chernichenko, S., Chiba, J., Chi, C.Y., Chiu, M., Choi, I.J., Chujo, T., Chung, P., Churyn, A., Cianciolo, V., Cleven, C.R., Cobigo, Y., Cole, B.A., Comets, M.P., Constantin, P., Csanad, M., Csorgo, T., Dahms, T., Das, K., David, G., Deaton, M.B., Dehmelt, K., Delagrange, H., Denisov, A., D'Enterria, D., Deshpande, A., Desmond, E.J., Dietzsch, O., Dion, A., Donadelli, M., Drachenberg, J.L., Drapier, O., Drees, A., Dubey, A.K., Durum, A., Dzhordzhadze, V., Efremenko, Y.V., Egdemir, J., Ellinghaus, F., Emam, W.S., Enokizono, A., En'Yo, H., Espagnon, B., Esumi, S., Eyser, K.O., Fields, D.E., Finger, M., Fleuret, F., Fokin, S.L., Forestier, B., Fraenkel, Z., Frantz, J.E., Franz, A., Franz, J., Frawley, A.D., Fujiwara, K., Fukao, Y., Fung, S.-Y., Fusayasu, T., Gadrat, S., Garishvili, I., Gastineau, F., Germain, Marie, Glenn, A., Gong, H., Gonin, M., Gosset, J., Goto, Y., Granier De Cassagnac, R., Grau, N., Greene, S.V., Grosse Perdekamp, M., Gunji, T., Gustafsson, H.-A., Hachiya, T., Hadj Henni, A., Haegemann, C., Haggerty, J.S., Hagiwara, M.N., Hamagaki, H., Han, R., Harada, H., Hartouni, E.P., Haruna, K., Harvey, M., Haslum, E., Hasuko, K., Hayano, R., Heffner, M., Hemmick, T.K., Hester, T., Heuser, J.M., He, X., Hiejima, H., Hill, J.C., Hobbs, R., Hohlmann, M., Holmes, M., Holzmann, W., Homma, K., Hong, B., Horaguchi, T., Hornback, D., Hur, M.G., Ichihara, T., Imai, K., Inaba, M., Inoue, Y., Isenhower, D., Isenhower, L., Ishihara, M., Isobe, T., Issah, M., Isupov, A., Jacak, B.V., Jia, J., Jin, J., Jinnouchi, O., Johnson, B.M., Joo, K.S., Jouan, D., Kajihara, F., Kametani, S., Kamihara, N., Kamin, J., Kaneta, M., Kang, J.H., Kanoh, H., Kano, H., Kawagishi, T., Kawall, D., Kazantsev, A.V., Kelly, Steven, Khanzadeev, A., Kikuchi, J., Kim, D.H., Kim, D.J., Kim, E., Kim, Y.-S., Kinney, E., Kiss, A., Kistenev, E., Kiyomichi, A., Klay, J., Klein-Boesing, C., Kochenda, L., Kochetkov, V., Komkov, B., Konno, M., Kotchetkov, D., Kozlov, A., Kral, A., Kravitz, A., Kroon, P.J., Kubart, J., Kunde, G.J., Kurihara, N., Kurita, K., Kweon, M.J., Kwon, Y., Kyle, G.S., Lacey, R., Lai, Y.-S., Lajoie, J.G., Lebedev, A., Le Bornec, Y., Leckey, S., Lee, D.M., Lee, M.K., Lee, T., Leitch, M.J., Leite, M.A.L., Lenzi, B., Lim, H., Liska, T., Litvinenko, A., Liu, M.X., Li, Xiaojian, Li, X.H., Love, B., Lynch, D., Maguire, C.F., Makdisi, Y.I., Malakhov, A., Malik, M.D., Manko, V.I., Mao, Y., Masek, L., Masui, H., Matathias, F., McCain, M.C., Mccumber, M., McGaughey, P.L., Miake, Y., Mikes, P., Miki, K., Miller, T.E., Milov, A., Mioduszewski, S., Mishra, G.C., Mishra, M., Mitchell, J.T., Mitrovski, M., Morreale, A., Morrison, D.P., Moss, J.M., Moukhanova, T.V., Mukhopadhyay, D., Murata, J., Nagamiya, S., Nagata, Y., Nagle, J.L., Naglis, M., Nakagawa, I., Nakamiya, Y., Nakamura, T., Nakano, K., Newby, J., Nguyen, M., Norman, B.E., Nyanin, A.S., Nystrand, J., O'Brien, E., Oda, S.X., Ogilvie, C.A., Ohnishi, H., Ojha, I.D., Okada, K., Oka, M., Omiwade, O.O., Oskarsson, A., Otterlund, L., Ouchida, M., Ozawa, K., Pak, R., Pal, D., Palounek, A.P.T., Pantuev, V., Papavassiliou, V., Park, J., Park, W.J., Pate, S.F., Pei, H., Peng, J.-C., Pereira, H., Peresedov, V., Peressounko, D.Yu., Pinkenburg, C., Pisani, R.P., Purschke, M.L., Purwar, A.K., Qu, H., Rak, J., Rakotozafindrabe, A., Ravinovich, I., Read, K.F., Rembeczki, S., Reuter, M., Reygers, K., Riabov, V., Riabov, Y., Roche, G., Romana, A., Rosati, M., Rosendahl, S.S.E., Rosnet, P., Rukoyatkin, P., Rykov, V.L., Ryu, S.S., Sahlmueller, B., Saito, N., Sakaguchi, T., Sakai, S., Sakata, H., Samsonov, V., Sato, H.D., Sato, S., Sawada, S., Seele, J., Seidl, R., Semenov, V., Seto, R., Sharma, D., Shea, T.K., Shein, I., Shevel, A., Shibata, T.-A., Shigaki, K., Shimomura, M., Shohjoh, T., Shoji, K., Sickles, A., Silva, C.L., Silvermyr, D., Silvestre, C., Sim, K.S., Singh, C.P., Singh, V., Skutnik, S., Slunecka, M., Smith, W.C., Soldatov, A., Soltz, R.A., Sondheim, W.E., Sorensen, S.P., Sourikova, I.V., Staley, F., Stankus, P.W., Stenlund, E., Stepanov, M., Ster, A., Stoll, S.P., Sugitate, T., Suire, C., Sziklai, J., Tabaru, T., Takagi, S., Takagui, E.M., Taketani, A., Tanaka, K.H., Tanaka, Y., Tanida, K., Tannenbaum, M.J., Taranenko, A., Tarjan, P., Thomas, T.L., Togawa, M., Toia, A., Tojo, J., Tomasek, L., Torii, H., Towell, R.S., Tram, V.-N., Tserruya, I., Tsuchimoto, Y., Tuli, S.K., Tydesjo, H., Tyurin, N., Vale, C., Valle, H., Van Hecke, H.W., Velkovska, J., Vertesi, R., Vinogradov, A.A., Virius, M., Vrba, V., Vznuzdaev, E., Wagner, M., Walker, D., Wang, X.R., Watanabe, Y., Wessels, J., White, S.N., Willis, N., Winter, D., Woody, C.L., Wysocki, M., Xie, W., Yamaguchi, Y., Yanovich, A., Yasin, Z., Ying, J., Yokkaichi, S., Young, G.R., Younus, I., Yushmanov, I.E., Zajc, W.A., Zaudtke, O., Zhang, C., Zhou, S., Zimanyi, J., Zolin, L., Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée (DAPNIA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PHENIX, Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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25.75.Dw ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,FOS: Physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has measured electrons from heavy flavor (charm and bottom) decays for 0.3 < p_T < 9 GeV/c at midrapidity (|y| < 0.35) in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. The nuclear modification factor R_AA relative to p+p collisions shows a strong suppression in central Au+Au collisions, indicating substantial energy loss of heavy quarks in the medium produced at RHIC. A large azimuthal anisotropy, v_2, with respect to the reaction plane is observed for 0.5 < p_T < 5 GeV/c indicating non-zero heavy flavor elliptic flow. Both R_AA and v_2 show a p_T dependence different from those of neutral pions. A comparison to transport models which simultaneously describe R_AA(p_T) and v_2(p_T) suggests that the viscosity to entropy density ratio is close to the conjectured quantum lower bound, i.e., near a perfect fluid., v2 replaced Fig. 3 to fix an error in using a wrong theory curve; v3 minor changes in review process, including last 2 sentences of abstract. 422 authors, 58 institutions, 6 pages text, 3 figures, REVTeX4. Submitted to Physical Review Letters. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.html
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- 2006
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