Open charm production in an equilibrating parton plasma

Nov, 1994
30 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 51 (1995) 3326-3335
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Report number:
  • LBL-36594

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Abstract:
Open charm production during the equilibration of a gluon dominated parton plasma is calculated, with both the time-dependent temperature and parton densities given by a set of rate equations. Including pre-thermal production, the total enhancement of open charm production over the initial gluon fusion depends sensitively on the initial parton density and the effective temperature. The dependence of the pre-thermal charm production on the space-momentum correlation in the initial parton phase-space distribution is also discussed.
Note:
  • 23 pages REVTEX, 7 uuencoded postscript figures included. Report-no: LBL-36594
  • nucleus nucleus: nuclear reaction
  • gold
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • charm: hadroproduction
  • hadroproduction: charm
  • temperature: time dependence
  • parton: density
  • phase space
  • gluon: fusion
  • numerical calculations