Centrality Dependence of Charm Production from a Measurement of Single Electrons in Au + Au Collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV

Physical Review Letters Volume 94 Issue 8 Page 082301-1-082301-6 published_at 2005-03-02
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Title ( eng )
Centrality Dependence of Charm Production from a Measurement of Single Electrons in Au + Au Collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV
Creator
PHENIX Collaboration
Enokizono Akitomo
Hachiya Takashi
Kohama Takeshi
Nakamura Tomoaki
Source Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume 94
Issue 8
Start Page 082301-1
End Page 082301-6
Abstract
The PHENIX experiment has measured midrapidity transverse momentum spectra (0.4 < pT < 4.0 GeV/c) of single electrons as a function of centrality in Au + Au collisions at √SNN = 200 GeV. Contributions from photon conversions and Dalitz decays of light neutral mesons are measured by introducing a thin (1.7% X0) converter into the PHENIX acceptance and are statistically removed. The subtracted nonphotonic electron spectra are primarily due to the semileptonic decays of hadrons containing heavy quarks, mainly charm at lower pT. For all centralities, the charm production cross section is found to scale with the nuclear overlap function, TAA. For minimum-bias collisions the charm cross section per binary collision is Ncc̅/TAA = 622 ± 57(stat) ± 160(syst) μb.
Keywords
heavy ion-nucleus reactions
charm particles
meson decay
semileptonic decays
Language
eng
Resource Type journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Date of Issued 2005-03-02
Rights
Copyright (c) 2005 The American Physical Society.
Publish Type Version of Record
Access Rights open access
Source Identifier
[ISSN] 0031-9007
[DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.082301
[NCID] AA00773679
[DOI] http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.082301