Heavy Flavor Probes of Quark Matter

Abstract

A brief survey of the role of heavy flavors as a probe of the state of matter produced by high energy heavy ion collisions is presented. Specific examples include energy loss, initial state gluon saturation, thermalization and flow. The formation of quarkonium bound states from interactions in which multiple heavy quark-antiquark pairs are initially produced is examined in general. Results from statistical hadronization and kinetic models are summarized. New predictions from the kinetic model for J/Psi at RHIC are presented.

Based on invited plenary talk at Strange Quark Matter 2004, Cape Town, South Africa, September 15-20, 2004, references completed, published in J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 31 (2005) S641-S649

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