Heavy flavor kinetics at the hadronization transition
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We investigate the in-medium modification of the charmonium breakup processes due to the Mott effect for light (pi, rho) and open-charm (D, D*) quark-antiquark bound states at the chiral/deconfinement phase transition. The Mott effect for the D-mesons effectively reduces the threshold for charmonium breakup cross sections, which is suggested as an explanation of the anomalous J/psi suppression phenomenon in the NA50 experiment. Further implications of finite-temperature mesonic correlations for the hadronization of heavy flavors in heavy-ion collisions are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0112362,
title = {Heavy flavor kinetics at the hadronization transition},
author = {D. Blaschke and G. Burau and Yu. Kalinovsky and T. Barnes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0112362},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to SQM2001 Conference, submitted to J. Phys. G