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Measurements of charm, bottom, and Drell-Yan via dimuons in p plus p and p plus Au collisions at root S-NN=200 GeV with PHENIX at RHIC

Author
Adare A. University of Colorado, USA
Finger Miroslav, prof. Ing. DrSc. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague
Finger Michael, M.Sc. CSc. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, JINR Dubna
Afanasjev , Dr. JINR
et al.  different institutions

Year
2019

Scientific journal
NUCLEAR PHYSICS A 982 695-698

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Abstract
Dilepton spectra are a classic probe to study ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. At RHIC energies, the dimuon continuum is dominated by correlated pairs from semi-leptonic decays of charm and bottom hadrons and the Drell-Yan process. The dimuon spectra contain information on heavy flavor angular correlations, which can constrain the relative contributions from different heavy flavor production mechanisms. Studying heavy flavor correlations in p+Au collisions may provide further insight on cold nuclear matter effects. Measurements of the Drell-Yan cross-section can provide constraints to PDFs, as well as further our understanding in initial state interactions in p+Au collisions.

In this talk, we report measurements of pp pairs from charm, bottom, and Drell-Yan in p+p and p+Au collisions at root S-NN = 200 GeV. A further shape analysis is applied to the heavy flavor pair correlations to extract the relative contributions to heavy flavor production mechanisms.

Cite article as:
A. Adare, M. Finger, M. Finger, . Afanasjev, . et al., "Measurements of charm, bottom, and Drell-Yan via dimuons in p plus p and p plus Au collisions at root S-NN=200 GeV with PHENIX at RHIC ", NUCLEAR PHYSICS A 982 695-698 (2019)