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Hard probes in heavy ion collisions at the LHC: heavy flavour physics
We present the results from the heavy quarks and quarkonia working group.
This report gives benchmark heavy quark and quarkonium cross sections for
and collisions at the LHC against which the rates can be compared in
the study of the quark-gluon plasma. We also provide an assessment of the
theoretical uncertainties in these benchmarks. We then discuss some of the cold
matter effects on quarkonia production, including nuclear absorption,
scattering by produced hadrons, and energy loss in the medium. Hot matter
effects that could reduce the observed quarkonium rates such as color screening
and thermal activation are then discussed. Possible quarkonium enhancement
through coalescence of uncorrelated heavy quarks and antiquarks is also
described. Finally, we discuss the capabilities of the LHC detectors to measure
heavy quarks and quarkonia as well as the Monte Carlo generators used in the
data analysis.Comment: 126 pages Latex; 96 figures included. Subgroup report, to appear in
the CERN Yellow Book of the workshop: Hard Probes in Heavy Ion Collisions at
the LHC. See also http://a.home.cern.ch/f/frixione/www/hvq.html for a version
with better quality for a few plot
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