Charm -- a thermometer of the mixed phase
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A charmed quark experiences drag and diffusion in the quark-gluon plasma, as well as strong interaction with the plasma surface. Our simulations indicate that charmed quarks created in heavy ion collisions will be trapped in the mixed phase and will come to equilibrium in it. Their momentum distribution will thus reflect the temperature at the confinement phase transition.
6 pages, revtex, 4 Postscript figures. Talk delivered by B.S. at RHIC '97, The Brookhaven Theory Workshop on Relativistic Heavy Ions, July 6-16, 1997 (http://bnlnth.phy.bnl.gov/rhic97/rhic97.html)
6 pages, revtex, 4 Postscript figures. Talk delivered by B.S. at RHIC '97, The Brookhaven Theory Workshop on Relativistic Heavy Ions, July 6-16, 1997 (http://bnlnth.phy.bnl.gov/rhic97/rhic97.html)