Measurement of Heavy Flavor Yield and Azimuthal Anisotropy at Forward Angles in Cu+Au Collisions at a Center-of-Mass Collision Energy Per Nucleon of 200 GeV

This dissertation presents the measurement of the invariant yield and azimuthal anisotropy of single muons originating from heavy flavor decays in √s_NN =200 GeV Cu+Au collisions. Exploration of an asymmetric heavy ion collision system provides important experimental data to challenge theoretical predictions.