A Heavy-Flavor Tracker for STAR
arXiv:nucl-ex/0510003 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.06.163
Abstract
We propose to construct a heavy flavor tracker for the STAR experiment at RHIC in order to measure the elliptic flow of charmed hadrons in the low pt region and identify B-meson contributions in the region pt > 4 GeV/c. In this talk, we will present the design of the detector in-depth and its expected performance as studied in detailed simulations and analytic calculations. Physics potentials of the detector will also be discussed.
proceedings of the Quark Matter 2005 Conference, Budapest, Hungary; to appear in Nucl. Phys. A; 4 pages, 3 figures; fixed fig.2