Hosted by: Jin Huang

Measurements of the modification of heavy quarks in heavy ion collisions provide constraints on energy loss in the Quark Gluon Plasma. The dead cone effect predicts a mass ordering to the modification, with the heavier bottom quark being less modified than the charm quark due to suppression of forward radiation. Therefore, measuring the modification of charm and bottom quarks separately can provide additional constraints on energy loss calculations. Previous PHENIX measurements of heavy flavor electrons indicated a substantial suppression relative to binary scaled p+p collisions at high transverse momentum. However, the inability to separate the contributions from charm and bottom hadron decays prevented a full understanding of the modification. Using the precise tracking capabilities provided by the PHENIX barrel Silicon Vertex Detector (VTX), we are now able to separate the contributions from charm and bottom hadrons to the measured heavy flavor electrons as a function of transverse momentum in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV. These results will be discussed and compared with theoretical models.