Suppression of heavy flavors at RHIC & LHC

Abstract

Some of the open questions on jet quenching are expected to be clarified by measuring heavy-flavored mesons at high transverse momentum. The formalism based on radiative in-medium energy-loss, which describes other high-pt results at RHIC, gives definite predictions for the suppression of charm and beauty quarks. However, the uncertainties from both contributions to the observed electrons make the interpretation of the data difficult due to the absence of a well calibrated benchmark. We review the present situation as well as the consequences for the future LHC. We also comment on the use of heavy flavored jet angular correlations as an additional tool to study the underline dynamics of jet quenching.

arXiv commentPlenary talk at the Conference Hard Probes 2006, Asilomar (California) June 2006. 8 pages

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