Centrality Dependence of Charm Production from Single Electrons in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV
Abstract
The PHENIX experiment has measured mid-rapidity transverse momentum spectra (0.4 < pT < 4.0 GeV/c) of single electrons as a function of centrality in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV. Contributions to the raw spectra from photon conversions and Dalitz decays of light neutral mesons are measured by introducing a thin (1.7% X0) converter into the PHENIX acceptance and are statistically removed. The subtracted ``non-photonic'' electron spectra are primarily due to the semi-leptonic decays of hadrons containing heavy quarks (charm and bottom). For all centralities, charm production is found to scale with the nuclear overlap function, TAA. For minimum-bias collisions the charm cross section per binary collision is Nccbar/TAA = 622 +/- 57 (stat.) +/- 160 (sys.) microbarns.
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