| ABSTRACT | 第1-12页 |
| 摘要 | 第12-23页 |
| 1 Introductions | 第23-43页 |
| ·Quantum ChromoDynamics | 第23-31页 |
| ·Confinement and asymptotic freedom | 第23-24页 |
| ·Nonperturbative QCD | 第24-25页 |
| ·Heavy quark masses and perturbative QCD(pQCD) | 第25-28页 |
| ·Deconfinement,equation of state and QCD phase | 第28-31页 |
| ·Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions | 第31-43页 |
| ·Energy loss and jet quenching | 第32-35页 |
| ·Collective motion and freeze-out | 第35-38页 |
| ·anisotropic flow | 第38-39页 |
| ·Charm production at RHIC | 第39-41页 |
| ·Bottom contribution in non-photonic electron measurements | 第41-43页 |
| 2 Experimental Set-up | 第43-53页 |
| ·The RHIC accelerator | 第43-44页 |
| ·The STAR detector | 第44-47页 |
| ·The Time Projection Chamber-TPC | 第47-50页 |
| ·The prototype TOF detector based on MRPC technology | 第50-53页 |
| 3 Non-photonic electron measurement in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions | 第53-78页 |
| ·Non-photonic electron transverse momentum distributions | 第54-72页 |
| ·Data sets and cuts | 第54-55页 |
| ·Electron identification | 第55-60页 |
| ·Acceptance and efficiencies | 第60页 |
| ·Photonic background | 第60-70页 |
| ·Centrality dependence of non-photonic electron | 第70-72页 |
| ·Non-photonic electron azimuthal anisotropy distributions | 第72-78页 |
| ·Heavy flavor anisotropic flow | 第72-73页 |
| ·Inclusive and photonic electron elliptic flow | 第73-77页 |
| ·non-photonic electron elliptic flow | 第77-78页 |
| 4 Charm energy-loss,freeze-out,flow properties and cross-section | 第78-98页 |
| ·D~0 reconstruction in Au+Au collisions | 第78-83页 |
| ·Muon from charm decay at low transverse momentum | 第83-86页 |
| ·Decay form factors | 第86-89页 |
| ·Combined fit:Charm cross-section,freeze-out and flow,energy-loss | 第89-98页 |
| 5 Discussion | 第98-116页 |
| ·Heavy flavor energy loss | 第98-101页 |
| ·Heavy flavor collectivity | 第101-105页 |
| ·Charm production cross-section-consistency and discrepancy | 第105-109页 |
| ·Identify bottom contribution in non-photonic electron spectra andv_2from Au+Au collisions at RHIC | 第109-116页 |
| ·Fit to non-photonic electron spectrum and relative cross section ratio | 第109-112页 |
| ·Fit to non-photonic electronv_2 | 第112-116页 |
| 6 Detector upgrades and outlook | 第116-124页 |
| ·STAR detector upgrades:TOF and HFT | 第116-117页 |
| ·Direct measurements of charmed hadrons with HFT | 第117-121页 |
| ·Bottom separation in heavy flavor measurements | 第121-124页 |
| A Presentations and publication list | 第124-130页 |
| References | 第130-136页 |
