Open Charm Production at STAR
Abstract
We present the open charm spectra at mid-rapidity from direct reconstruction of D0, D* and D+/- in d+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV using the STAR detector at RHIC. The indirect electron/positron measurements via charm semileptonic decays in p+p and d+Au collisions are also reported. The total c\bar(c) cross section per nucleon-nucleon collision is extracted from both direct and indirect measurements and are consistent with each other. By combining the D0 and semileptonic measurements together, the cross section of 1.4+/-0.2+/-0.4 mb is higher than expectations from PYTHIA and other pQCD calculations. The open charm pT distribution from direct measurements covers the pT range up to ~10 GeV/c and follows a power-law distribution.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0410038,
title = {Open Charm Production at STAR},
author = {Haibin Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0410038},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures, proceedings for Hot Quark 04 Conference. submitted to J. Phys. G: Nucl. Phys