Charm Quark Production in Non-central Heavy Ion Collisions
Nuclear Theory
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
The effect of gluon shadowing on charm quark production in large impact parameter ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is investigated. Charm production cross sections are calculated for a range of non-central impact parameters which can be accurately inferred from the global transverse energy distribution. We show that charm production is a good probe of the local parton density which determines the effectiveness of shadowing. The spatial dependence of shadowing can only be studied in heavy ion collisions.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9706085,
title = {Charm Quark Production in Non-central Heavy Ion Collisions},
author = {V. Emel'yanov and A. Khodinov and S. R. Klein and R. Vogt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9706085},
year = {2008}
}
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28 pages with 8 figures