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View SchemaSuppression of Non-photonic Electrons from Enhancement of Charm Baryons in Heavy Ion Collisions
| Authors | P. R. Sorensen, X. Dong |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0512042 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0512042 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevC.74.024902 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev. C74 (2006) 024902 |
Abstract
At intermediate transverse momentum (2 < p_T < 6 GeV/c), baryon production in Au+Au collisions is enhanced compared to p+p collisions. Since charm baryon decays produce electrons less frequently than charm meson decays, the non-photonic electron spectrum is sensitive to the Lambda_c/D ratio. In this report we study the dependence of the non-photonic electron spectrum on the baryon-to-meson ratio for charm hadrons. As an example, we take the Lambda_c/D ratio to have the same form as the Lambda/K^0_S ratio. In this case, even if the total charm quark yield in Au+Au collisions scales with the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions (N_bin), the electron spectrum at 2 < p_T < 5 GeV/c is suppressed relative to N_bin scaled p+p collisions by as much as 20%.
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"title": "Suppression of Non-photonic Electrons from Enhancement of Charm Baryons in Heavy Ion Collisions",
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