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Publications and source records attributed to Alan Dion.
We summarize the presentations of the Heavy Flavours working group for the 2011 DIS Workshop. This session contained presentations on theoretical methods and experimental measurements of heavy quark production, and the impact on recent experimental results from HERA, RHIC, Tevatron, and LHC.
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 $p_T$. PHENIX has also measured the spectrum of muons at forward rapidity from open heavy flavor decays in Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV.