Open charm tomography of cold nuclear matter

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dc.creatorVitev, I.
dc.creatorGoldman, T.
dc.creatorJohnson, M. B.
dc.creatorQiu, J. W.
dc.date2006-05-17
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:41:36Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:41:36Z
dc.descriptionWe study the relative contribution of partonic sub-processes to D meson production and D meson-triggered inclusive di-hadrons to lowest order in perturbative QCD. While gluon fusion dominates the creation of large angle DD-bar pairs, charm on light parton scattering determines the yield of single inclusive D mesons. The distinctly different non-perturbative fragmentation of c quarks into D mesons versus the fragmentation of quarks and gluons into light hadrons results in a strong transverse momentum dependence of anticharm content of the away-side charm-triggered jet. In p+A reactions, we calculate and resum the coherent nuclear-enhanced power corrections from the final state partonic scattering in the medium. We find that single and double inclusive open charm production can be suppressed as much as the yield of neutral pions from dynamical high-twist shadowing. Effects of energy loss in p+A collisions are also investigated phenomenologically and may lead to significantly weaker transverse momentum dependence of the nuclear attenuation.
dc.description24 pages, 21 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0605200
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0605200
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D74:054010,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.054010
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/181672
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleOpen charm tomography of cold nuclear matter
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