May 22 – 28, 2011
Centre Bonlieu
Europe/Zurich timezone

Dragging D mesons by hot hadrons

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1m
Théâtre National (Centre Bonlieu)

Théâtre National

Centre Bonlieu

France
Poster Heavy flavor and quarkonia production

Speaker

Santosh K Das (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)

Description

We evaluate the drag and diffusion coefficients of a hot hadronic medium consisting of pions, nucleons, kaons and eta using open charm mesons as a probe. The interaction of the probe with the hadronic matter has been treated in the framework of effective field theory. It is observed that the magnitude of both the transport coefficients are significant, indicating substantial amount of interaction of the heavy mesons with the thermal hadronic system. The results may have noticeable impact on the experimental observable like the suppression of single electron spectra originating form the decays of heavy mesons in nuclear collisions at relativistic energies.

Primary author

Sabyasachi Ghosh (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)

Co-authors

Jan-e Alam (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre) Santosh K Das (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre) Sourav Sarkar (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)

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