Thermal Relaxation of Charm in Hadronic Matter

Abstract

The thermal relaxation rate of open-charm ($D$) mesons in hot and dense hadronic matter is calculated using empirical elastic scattering amplitudes. $D$-meson interactions with thermal pions are approximated by $D^{\ast }$ resonances, while scattering off other hadrons ($K$, $\eta$, $\rho$, $\omega$, $K^{\ast }$, $N$, $\Delta$) is evaluated using vacuum scattering amplitudes as available in the literature based on effective Lagrangians and constrained by realistic spectroscopy. The thermal relaxation time of $D$-mesons in a hot $\pi$ gas is found to be around 25-50\,fm/$c$ for temperatures $T$=150-180\,MeV, which reduces to 10-25\,fm/$c$ in a hadron-resonance gas. The latter values, argued to be conservative estimates, imply significant modifications of $D$-meson spectra in heavy-ion collisions. Close to the critical temperature ($T_c$), the spatial diffusion coefficient ($D_s$) is surprisingly similar to recent calculations for charm quarks in the Quark-Gluon Plasma using non-perturbative $T$-matrix interactions. This suggests a possibly continuous minimum structure of $D_s$ around $T_c$.

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