Soft Open Charm Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions
arXiv:0902.4028 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.232302
Abstract
Effects of strong longitudinal color electric fields (SCF) on the open charm production in nucleus-nucleus (A + A) collisions at 200A GeV are investigated within the framework of the HIJING-BBbar v2.0 model. A three fold increase of the effective string tension due to in medium effects in A + A collisions, results in a sizeable (60-70 percents) enhancement of the total charm production cross sections. The nuclear modification factors show a suppression at moderate transverse momentum consistent with RHIC data. At Large Hadron Collider energies the model predicts an increase of total charm production cross sections by approximately an order of magnitude.
5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
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