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Report number	nucl-ex/0510003
Title	A Heavy-Flavor Tracker for STAR
Author(s)	Schweda, K (CERN)
Publication	2006
Imprint	2 Oct 2005
Number of pages	4
Note	Comments: proceedings of the Quark Matter 2005 Conference, Budapest, Hungary; to appear in Nucl. Phys. A; 4 pages, 3 figures; fixed fig.2
In:	Nucl. Phys. A 774 (2006) 907-910
In:	18th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Budapest, Hungary, 4 - 9 Aug 2005, pp.907-910
DOI	10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.06.163
Subject category	Nuclear Physics - Experiment
Abstract	We propose to construct a heavy flavor tracker for the STAR experiment at RHIC in order to measure the elliptic flow of charmed hadrons in the low pt region and identify B-meson contributions in the region pt > 4 GeV/c. In this talk, we will present the design of the detector in-depth and its expected performance as studied in detailed simulations and analytic calculations. Physics potentials of the detector will also be discussed.

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