Heavy flavor and quarkonia results from the PHENIX experiment

Abstract

The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has a unique large rapidity coverage (1.2 < |y| < 2.2) for heavy flavor studies in heavy-ion collisions. This kinematic region has a smaller particle density and may undergo different nuclear effects before and after the hard process when compared to mid-rapidity production. The latest PHENIX runs contain a large data set which allows, for the first time, the study of heavy flavor and J/ψ flow at the large rapidity region in Au+Au collisions at √SNN =200 GeV. This measurement has the potential to reveal a medium evolution distinct from that known at mid-rapidity.