Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-01-31
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
17 pages in A4 preprint form and 12pt, 2 figures
Scientific paper
In relativistic heavy ion collisions, the cross section of heavy hadron production via the combination of a heavy quark with a light one from the quark-gluon matter can be factorized. It is the convolution of twist-4 combination matrix elements, the parameters corresponding to the parton distributions of the quark-gluon matter, as well as the hard partonic cross section of heavy quark production calculable in PQCD. These parton distributions and combination matrix elements are functions of a scaling variable which is the momentum fraction of the heavy quark w.r.t. the heavy hadron. In the same factorization framework, the combination matrix elements appear in other `simpler' processes and can be extracted. Taking them as inputs, comparing with data from RHIC and (future) LHC, we can get the parton distributions of the quark-gluon matter just as the similar way we get those of nucleon, pion, or photon, etc..
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