Thermal charm production by massive gluons and quarks

Details Thermal charm production by massive gluons and quarks Thermal charm production by massive gluons and quarks

1997-04-20

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9704360v1

Phys.Rev.C56:2707-2717,1997

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

19 pages in Latex and 9 Postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.56.2707

We investigate charm production in an equilibrated quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. Effective quark and gluon masses are introduced from thermal QCD calculations. Assuming a Bjorken-type longitudinal expansion and including the influence of temperature dependent masses on the expansion, we determine the total number of c\bar{c} pairs produced in the quark-gluon plasma phase. We calculate the charm production rate at leading order with massive gluons and quarks and compare our result to charm production by massless partons. We consider two different scenarios for the initial conditions, a parton gas with a rather long kinetic equilibration time and a minijet gas with a short equilibration time. In a parton gas, assuming m_c=1.2 GeV, we obtain a substantial enhancement over the thermal charm rate from massless quarks and gluons, up to 4.9 secondary charm quark pairs in Au+Au collisions at RHIC and 245 charm pairs in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC.

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