1996/05/08 by Edward Shuryak, E. Shuryak · 62 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Charm (quantum number) #Charm quark #Collider #Gluon #Heavy ion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ion #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quark #Quark–gluon plasma #Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.55.961
published in Physical Review C 55(2), 961-963 (American Institute of Physics)
arxiv created 1996/05/08 · openalex publication_date 1997/02/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Both dilepton and charm production at RHIC are considered to be important signatures for quark-gluon plasma production. Recently it was argued by Gavin et al. that the background from semileptonic correlated charm decays is so large that it makes dilepton measurements virtually impossible. We show that this conclusion is in fact reversed if the energy loss due to a secondary interaction of charmed quarks is included.