Heavy ion collisions at the LHC energies are used to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at very high energy densities, which exceed by one order of magnitude the critical value predicted by lattice QCD for a phase transition into a quark gluon plasma. Heavy flavour quarks, namely charm and beauty, are produced in hard parton scattering processes in the early time of the collisions and thus they experience the full evolution of the system. Hadrons with open or hidden heavy flavour are thus ideal probes to study the properties of the strongly interacting matter produced in heavy ion collisions at the LHC. In this conference contribution I have reviewed recent results and discussed the prospects for the future.

Heavy flavour physics in heavy ion collisions at LHC / Bruno, Giuseppe Eugenio. - In: POS PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 1824-8039. - ELETTRONICO. - BEAUTY 2018:(2018).

Heavy flavour physics in heavy ion collisions at LHC

Giuseppe Eugenio Bruno
2018-01-01

Abstract

Heavy ion collisions at the LHC energies are used to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at very high energy densities, which exceed by one order of magnitude the critical value predicted by lattice QCD for a phase transition into a quark gluon plasma. Heavy flavour quarks, namely charm and beauty, are produced in hard parton scattering processes in the early time of the collisions and thus they experience the full evolution of the system. Hadrons with open or hidden heavy flavour are thus ideal probes to study the properties of the strongly interacting matter produced in heavy ion collisions at the LHC. In this conference contribution I have reviewed recent results and discussed the prospects for the future.
2018
Heavy flavour physics in heavy ion collisions at LHC / Bruno, Giuseppe Eugenio. - In: POS PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 1824-8039. - ELETTRONICO. - BEAUTY 2018:(2018).
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