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Turning on the Charm

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

We argue that the strong jet quenching of heavy flavors observed in heavy-ion collisions is to a large extent due to binary scatterings in the quark-gluon plasma. It can be understood from first principles: the charm collision probability beyond logarithmic accuracy and Markov evolution.

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@article{arxiv.0801.0595,
  title  = {Turning on the Charm},
  author = {Andre Peshier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0595},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 5 figures

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