Thermal open charm signals versus hard initial yields in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
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- 1 December 1997
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Vol. 23 (12) , 2001-2011
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/23/12/025
Abstract
Exploiting a unique set of parton distribution functions we estimate hard processes for open charm, dilepton and mini-jet production. Assuming rapid thermalization within the mini-jet plasma we follow the evolution (expansion and chemical equilibration) of the parton matter and calculate the energy loss of charm quarks in this environment. A substantial part of charm is expected to thermalize. We try to estimate the thermalized open charm component in the final hadron spectra.Keywords
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