Open charm tomography of cold nuclear matter

Details Open charm tomography of cold nuclear matter Open charm tomography of cold nuclear matter

2006-05-17

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0605200v1

Phys.Rev.D74:054010,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

24 pages, 21 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.74.054010

We study the relative contribution of partonic sub-processes to D meson production and D meson-triggered inclusive di-hadrons to lowest order in perturbative QCD. While gluon fusion dominates the creation of large angle DD-bar pairs, charm on light parton scattering determines the yield of single inclusive D mesons. The distinctly different non-perturbative fragmentation of c quarks into D mesons versus the fragmentation of quarks and gluons into light hadrons results in a strong transverse momentum dependence of anticharm content of the away-side charm-triggered jet. In p+A reactions, we calculate and resum the coherent nuclear-enhanced power corrections from the final state partonic scattering in the medium. We find that single and double inclusive open charm production can be suppressed as much as the yield of neutral pions from dynamical high-twist shadowing. Effects of energy loss in p+A collisions are also investigated phenomenologically and may lead to significantly weaker transverse momentum dependence of the nuclear attenuation.

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