The Separation of Charm and Bottom Decays Measured in p+Au Collisions at 200 GeV

Author

Zhiyan Wang, The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkFollow

Date of Degree

9-2022

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Program

Physics

Advisor

Stefan Bathe

Committee Members

James Popp

Brian Tiburzi

Kevin Lynch

Takashi Hachiya

Subject Categories

Elementary Particles and Fields and String Theory | Nuclear

Keywords

PHENIX, RHIC, BNL, Quark, QGP, Quark-Gluon Plasma

Abstract

It has long been observed experimentally, from previous heavy-flavor electron measurements, that heavy quarks are subject to substantial modifications of their momentum spectrum. Using the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), measurements of the production of open heavy flavor hadrons with charm and bottom quarks in p+Au collisions at 200 GeV are studied and presented in this thesis. Distance of closest approach analysis of electron tracks is used to study the semileptonic decay electrons from charm and bottom hadrons. The results include invariant yield and fraction of bottom electrons. In addition to the p+p and Au+Au collisions’ studies previously done by the PHENIX Collaboration, this p+Au study provides another contributing factor to heavy-ion collision as the cold nuclear matter baseline.

Recommended Citation

Wang, Zhiyan, "The Separation of Charm and Bottom Decays Measured in p+Au Collisions at 200 GeV" (2022). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/4944