Measurement of the Open Charm Cross-Section in 200 GeV Heavy-Ion Collisions at STAR

Abstract

We report on measurements of open charm production through both hadronic and semi-leptonic decay channels in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV heavy ion collision at the STAR experiment at RHIC. We compare experimental results to theoretical predictions from pQCD. The open charm $R_{AA}$ is also presented as evidence of possible medium-induced energy loss.

arXiv commentComments: 5 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the Lake Louise Winter Institute 2008, February 2008

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