### Session HH: Ultra-relativistic Heavy Ions: Heavy Flavor Production

10:30 AM–12:06 PM, Friday, November 5, 2010
Room: Lamy

Chair: Gerd Kunde, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Abstract ID: BAPS.2010.DNP.HH.1

### Abstract: HH.00001 : Heavy flavor production in Cu+Cu and p+p collisions at $\sqrt {s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV

10:30 AM–10:42 AM

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#### Author:

Archil Garishvili
(University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Heavy flavor production can serve as an important probe of the Quark Gluon Plasma. Single muon production is an important tool for studying heavy flavor production via semi-leptonic decays of open heavy flavor mesons. The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has the ability to detect muons over the range of 1.1 $<$ $\mid\eta\mid$ $<$ 2.25 using two back-to-back muon spectrometers. The first measurement of the nuclear modification factor of open heavy flavor production at forward rapidity in Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV taken during 2005 run will be described. Also, results concerning heavy flavor production in p+p collisions at $\sqrt {s}$ = 200 GeV will be presented.

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