Open and Hidden Charm Production in Heavy Ion Collisions at Ultrarelativistic Energies

Abstract

We consider the production of the open charm and J/psi mesons in heavy ion collisions at BNL RHIC. We discuss several recently developed pictures for J/psi production and argue that a measurement at RHIC energies is crucial for disentangling these different descriptions.

19 pages, Latex, 5 PS-figures. v3: Fig.6 is added

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