How far can we see back in time in high-energy collisions using charm hadrons?

Abstract

We use open charm production to estimate how far we can see back in time in high-energy hadron-hadron collisions. We analyze the transverse momentum distributions of the identified D mesons from pp, p--Pb and A--A collisions at the ALICE and STAR experiments covering the energy range from $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=200$~GeV up to 7~TeV. Within a non-extensive statistical framework, the common Tsallis parameters for D mesons represent higher temperature and more degrees of freedom than that of light-flavour hadrons. Assuming Bjorken-expansion, the production of D mesons corresponds to a significantly earlier proper time, ${\tau }_{\mathrm{D}}=(0.18\pm 0.06){\tau }_{\mathrm{LF}}$.

17 pages, 6 figures, 1 table

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