We report the first measurement of charmed-hadron (D0) production via the hadronic decay channel (D0→K-+π+) in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200  GeV with the STAR experiment. The charm production cross section per nucleon-nucleon collision at midrapidity scales with the number of binary collisions, Nbin, from p+p to central Au+Au collisions. The D0 meson yields in central Au+Au collisions are strongly suppressed compared to those in p+p scaled by Nbin, for transverse momenta pT>3  GeV/c, demonstrating significant energy loss of charm quarks in the hot and dense medium. An enhancement at intermediate pT is also observed. Model calculations including strong charm-medium interactions and coalescence hadronization describe our measurements.

Observation of D0 meson nuclear modifications in Au+Au collisions at sNN =200GeV / Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J.K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M.M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C.D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E.C., Averichev, G.S., Banerjee, A., Beavis, D.R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A.K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 113:14(2014), pp. 142301.1-142301.7. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.142301]

Observation of D0 meson nuclear modifications in Au+Au collisions at sNN =200GeV

Contin G.;Di Ruzza B.;
2014-01-01

Abstract

We report the first measurement of charmed-hadron (D0) production via the hadronic decay channel (D0→K-+π+) in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200  GeV with the STAR experiment. The charm production cross section per nucleon-nucleon collision at midrapidity scales with the number of binary collisions, Nbin, from p+p to central Au+Au collisions. The D0 meson yields in central Au+Au collisions are strongly suppressed compared to those in p+p scaled by Nbin, for transverse momenta pT>3  GeV/c, demonstrating significant energy loss of charm quarks in the hot and dense medium. An enhancement at intermediate pT is also observed. Model calculations including strong charm-medium interactions and coalescence hadronization describe our measurements.
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