Charmed meson and charmonium production in PbPb collisions at the LHC

Abstract

The phenomenological analysis of various characteristics of $J/\psi$ and $D$ meson production in PbPb collisions at the center-of-mass energy 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair is presented. The data on momentum spectra and elliptic flow are reproduced by two-component model HYDJET++ including thermal and non-thermal charm production mechanisms. The significant part of $D$-mesons is found to be in a kinetic equilibrium with the created medium, while $J/\psi$-mesons are characterized by earlier (as compared to light hadrons) freeze-out.

15 pages including 8 figures as EPS-files; prepared using LaTeX package for publication in the Journal of Physics G

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