Charm Degrees of Freedom in Quark Gluon Plasma

Abstract

Lattice QCD studies on fluctuations and correlations of charm quantum number have established that deconfinement of charm degrees of freedom sets in around the chiral crossover temperature, $T_c$, i.e. charm degrees of freedom carrying fractional baryonic charge start to appear. By reexamining those same lattice QCD data we show that, in addition to the contributions from quark-like excitations, the partial pressure of charm degrees of freedom may still contain significant contributions from open-charm meson and baryon-like excitations associated with integral baryonic charges for temperatures up to $1.2T_c$. Charm quark-quasiparticles become the dominant degrees of freedom for temperatures $T>1.2T_c$.

5 pages, 3 Figures, v2: Fig. 3 simplified, published version

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