Charm quark production in noncentral heavy ion collisions

被引:16
作者
Emelyanov, V
Khodinov, A
Klein, SR
Vogt, R
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY, LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB, DIV PHYS, BERKELEY, CA 94720 USA
[2] UNIV CALIF DAVIS, DEPT PHYS, DAVIS, CA 95616 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW C | 1997年 / 56卷 / 05期
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10.1103/PhysRevC.56.2726
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O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
学科分类号
070202 ;
摘要
The effect of gluon shadowing on charm quark production in large impact parameter ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is investigated. Charm quark production cross sections are calculated for a range of noncentral impact parameters which can be determined from the global transverse energy distribution. We show that charm quark production is a good probe of the local parton density which determines the effectiveness of shadowing. We discuss why shadowing may have a spatial dependence and show that this spatial dependence may be detected in noncentral heavy ion collisions.
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页码:2726 / 2735
页数:10
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