Open charm production in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions

Abstract

We calculate excitation functions for open charm mesons in $Au+Au$ reactions from AGS to RHIC energies within the HSD transport approach which is based on string, quark, diquark ($q,\bar{q},qq,\bar{q}\bar{q}$) and hadronic degrees of freedom. The open charm cross sections from $pN$ and $\pi N$ reactions are fitted to results from PYTHIA and scaled in magnitude to the available experimental data. From our dynamical calculations we find an approximate $m_T$-scaling for pions, kaons, $D$-mesons and $J/\Psi$ -- when discarding final state elastic scattering of kaons and $\varphi$-mesons with pions -- in central collisions of $Au+Au$ at 160 A$\cdot$GeV (with an apparent slope of 176 MeV) without employing the assumption of a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). We demonstrate that this result is essentially due to a relative $m_T$-scaling in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}\approx$ 17.3 GeV. At lower bombarding energies of 25 A$\cdot$GeV a suppression of $D$-mesons by a factor of $\sim$ 10 relative to a global $m_T$-scaling with slope 143 MeV is expected. However, when incorporating attractive $D$-meson self energies as suggested by QCD sum rules, an approximate $m_T$-scaling is regained even at 25 A$\cdot$GeV. The effects of $D$-meson rescattering and charmonium absorption are discussed, furthermore, with respect to rapidity and transverse mass distributions in central collisions of $Au+Au$ at 25, 160 A$\cdot$GeV and 21.3 A$\cdot$TeV.

46 pages, LaTeX, including 19 postscript figures, to be published in Nucl. Phys. A

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