Open Heavy Flavor Measurements at PHENIX Original Research Article

We report on two new measurements by the PHENIX collaboration regarding open heavy flavor. The first is an additional contribution to the background in the measurement of the yield of electrons at mid-rapidity from open heavy flavor decays. We found that the J/ψ can contribute substantially to the yield at high pT. PHENIX has also measured the spectrum of muons at forward rapidity from open heavy flavor decays in Cu+Cu collisions at View the MathML source.