Heavy Quark Energy Loss in High Multiplicity Proton Proton Collisions at LHC

Understand

One of the most promising probes to study deconfined matter created in high energy nuclear collisions is the energy loss of (heavy) quarks.

• It has been shown in experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) that even charm and bottom quarks, despite their high mass, experience a remarkable medium suppression in the Quark Gluon Plasma.
• In this exploratory investigation we study the energy loss of heavy quarks in high multiplicity proton-proton collisions at LHC energies.
• Although the colliding systems are smaller than compared to those at RHIC (p+p vs.