Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-11-09
Phys.Lett.B649:139-146,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
8 pages, 5 figures. Figures and references updated, typos corrected. As published in Phys.Lett.B
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.03.050
In the framework of the reaction operator approach we calculate and resum the multiple elastic scattering of a fast $q \bar{q}$ system traversing dense nuclear matter. We derive the collisional broadening of the meson's transverse momentum and the distortion of its intrinsic light cone wave function. The medium-induced dissociation probability of heavy mesons is shown to be sensitive to the opacity of the quark-gluon plasma and the time dependence of its formation and evolution. We solve the system of coupled rate equations that describe the competition between the fragmentation of $c$- and $b$-quarks and the QGP-induced dissociation of the $D$- and $B$-mesons to evaluate the quenching of heavy hadrons in nucleus-nucleus collisions. In contrast to previous results on heavy quark modification, this approach predicts suppression of $B$-mesons comparable to that of $D$-mesons at transverse momenta as low as $p_T \sim 10$ GeV. It allows for an improved description of the large attenuation of non-photonic electrons in central Au+Au reactions at RHIC.
Adil Azfar
Vitev Ivan
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