Charmed baryon production from the quark coalescence process in Au + Au collisions at the RHIC

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Abstract

A simple quark counting model, which was very successful for describing strange baryon production, was used to predict the yields of charmed baryons with single charmness quantum number in central Au + Au collisions at the RHIC energy. Because the quark counting model assumes a quark-gluon plasma state, a comparison of the future experimental data with the present predictions will be an important check for the existence of a deconfinement phase transion. As a confirmation, the J/ψ yield was also calculated by using the quark counting model at √ NN = 200 GeV. The estimated J/ψ yield is consistent with the published upper limit by the PHENIX collaboration, which further supports the idea that the relevant degrees of freedom are quarks and gluons at the RHIC.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)77-81
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of the Korean Physical Society
Volume49
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 2006 Jul

Keywords

  • Charmed baryons
  • Heavy-ion collisions
  • J/ψ
  • Quark coalescence
  • RHIC

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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