SHARE with CHARM

ORAL

Abstract

The statistical hadronization model predicts particle production in hadronization of quark-gluon plasma~[1]. In LHC-ion 2.76 TeV per nucleon collision, a rather large yield of charm is expected, produced in initial hard parton collisions before the QGP phase emerges. Using statistical hadronization method, we predict the expected charmed hadron yields~[2]. Our effort is to include charm hadron decay contributions in final hadron yields. Based on experimental decay data, symmetry principles and plausibility arguments, we prepare a complete decay table of all charmed hadrons. CHARM module adds charm decay hadron multiplicity into SHARE~[1]. SHARE with CHARM utility uses the charm yield as an additional fit parameter when analyzing hadron production in HI-collisions, which works even without charmed hadron input. Based on precise non-charm hadron yields data, a prediction of charmed hadron production is obtained. About 20\% of charm is bound to strangeness and thus charm decays contribute a significant fraction of multistrange hadron yields: a 30\% fraction of $\phi$, 25\% of $\Xi$ and 30\% of $\Omega$ is produced by charm decays whereas e.g. $\pi$ yield increases by 10\%, (taking as a scaling benchmark 100 charm pairs and a common set of chemical non-equilibrium SHM parameters).\\[4pt] [1] G. Torrieri, et al., Comp.Phys.Comm. {\bf 167},229(2005); ibid.{\bf 175}, 635(2006)\\[0pt] [2] I. Kuznetsova and J. Rafelski, Eur.Phys.J. {\bf C 51},113(2007)

*Supported by U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-FG02-04ER41318.

Authors

  • Michal Petran

    • Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
  • Johann Rafelski

    • Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721