Charm -- a thermometer of the mixed phase
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
A charmed quark experiences drag and diffusion in the quark-gluon plasma, as well as strong interaction with the plasma surface. Our simulations indicate that charmed quarks created in heavy ion collisions will be trapped in the mixed phase and will come to equilibrium in it. Their momentum distribution will thus reflect the temperature at the confinement phase transition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9709228,
title = {Charm -- a thermometer of the mixed phase},
author = {Benjamin Svetitsky and Asher Uziel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9709228},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, revtex, 4 Postscript figures. Talk delivered by B.S. at RHIC '97, The Brookhaven Theory Workshop on Relativistic Heavy Ions, July 6-16, 1997 (http://bnlnth.phy.bnl.gov/rhic97/rhic97.html)