Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2003-12-22
Phys.Lett. B595 (2004) 202-208
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
6 pages, 4 figures, version published in PLB with updated figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2004.06.064
We investigate effects of charm-quark interactions in a Quark-Gluon Plasma on the production of $D$ and $J/\psi$ mesons in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Employing a previously constructed coalescence model that successfully reproduces the transverse momentum ($p_T$) spectra and elliptic flow ($v_2(p_T)$) of light hadrons at RHIC from underlying light-quark distributions at the phase transition temperature $T_c$, $D$-meson and $J/\psi$ $p_T$ spectra are evaluated. For the charm-quark distributions, we consider two limiting scenarios: (i) {\em no} rescattering, corresponding to perturbative QCD spectra and (ii) {\em complete} thermalization including transverse expansion. With the $D$-meson spectra acquiring a minimal $v_2$ inherited from their light-quark content, the corresponding semileptonic decay spectra of single electrons are found to practically preserve the $v_2$ of the parent particles, exhibiting marked differences between the pQCD and thermal scenarios for $p_T\ge 1$ GeV. Likewise, the $p_T$-spectra and yields of $J/\psi$'s differ appreciably in the two scenarios.
Greco Vincenzo
Ko Che Ming
Rapp Ralf
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