Open Charm Production in an Equilibrating Parton Plasma
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Open charm production during the equilibration of a gluon dominated parton plasma is calculated, with both the time-dependent temperature and parton densities given by a set of rate equations. Including pre-thermal production, the total enhancement of open charm production over the initial gluon fusion depends sensitively on the initial parton density and the effective temperature. The dependence of the pre-thermal charm production on the space-momentum correlation in the initial parton phase-space distribution is also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9412352,
title = {Open Charm Production in an Equilibrating Parton Plasma},
author = {Peter Levai and Berndt Muller and Xin-Nian Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9412352},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
23 pages REVTEX, 7 uuencoded postscript figures included