Thermal charm production in a quark-gluon plasma in Pb-Pb collisions at SNN=5.5 TeV Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Charm production from the quark-gluon plasma created in the midrapidity of central heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is studied in the next-to-leading order in QCD. Using a schematic longitudinally boost-invariant and transversally expanding fire-cylinder model, we find that charm production could be appreciably enhanced at LHC as a result of the high temperature that is expected to be reached in the produced quark-gluon plasma. Sensitivities of our results to the number of charm quark pairs produced from initial hard scattering, the initial thermalization time and temperature of the quark-gluon plasma, and the charm quark mass are also studied. 2008 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW C

author list (cited authors)

  • Zhang, B., Ko, C. M., & Liu, W.

citation count

  • 33

complete list of authors

  • Zhang, Ben-Wei||Ko, Che Ming||Liu, Wei

publication date

  • February 2008