Overview of charm production at RHIC

Abstract

In this presentation, I discussed a) the charm total cross-section and its comparisons to measurements at other beam energies and pQCD calculations; b) the semileptonic decay of charmed hadrons and the sensitivity of non-photonic leptons to charm quark collective flow and freeze-out; c) semileptonic decayed electron spectrum at high transverse momentum, its comparison to FONLL in p+p and d+Au collisions, and heavy-quark energy loss in Au+Au collisions.

8 pages, 4 figures, overview talk at SQM2006: Strangeness in Quark Matter Los Angeles, CA, Mar. 26-31, 2006; minor text changes and references added

References in corpus (6)

• Identified hadron spectra at large transverse momentum in p+p and d+Au collisions at \sqrts_NN = 200 GeV
• Open charm production in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV Au+Au collisions
• Extracting the charm cross section from semileptonic decays into muons
• Heavy Flavor Production at STAR
• Quarkonia production at RHIC
• Measurement of Open Heavy Flavor Production with Single Muons in p+p and d+Au Collisions at RHIC

Cited by in corpus (5)

• Parton energy loss in an expanding quark-gluon plasma: Radiative vs collisional
• $\varphi$ meson production and partonic collectivity at RHIC
• Heavy quark production at LHC in the color dipole formalism
• Charm hadron production in relativistic heavy ion collisions within a quark combination model
• Heavy Flavour Production in pp and Heavy Ion Collisions in QCD Up to LHC Energies