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Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 122001 (2005) [4 pages]

QCD Predictions for Charm and Bottom Quark Production at RHIC

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Matteo Cacciari*
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France

Paolo Nason†
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Italy

Ramona Vogt‡
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, California, USA and University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA

Received 29 March 2005; published 12 September 2005

We make up-to-date QCD predictions for open charm and bottom production at RHIC in nucleon-nucleon collisions at √S=200  GeV. We also calculate the electron spectrum resulting from heavy flavor decays to allow direct comparison to the data. A rigorous benchmark, including the theoretical uncertainties, is established against which nuclear collision data can be compared to obtain evidence for nuclear effects.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.122001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.122001
PACS:
12.38.Cy, 13.85.Qk, 13.87.Fh

*Email address: cacciari@lpthe.jussieu.fr

†Email address: Paolo.Nason@mib.infn.it

‡Email address: vogt@lbl.gov

 
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