Heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton–proton to heavy-ion collisions
Heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton–proton to heavy-ion collisions
This report reviews the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics, from the proton and nucleus structure at high energy to deconfinement and the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Emphasis is given to the lessons learnt from …