Open charm production in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV Au+Au collisions

Abstract

We report on the measurement of D meson production from the analysis of their hadronic ($D^0\to K\pi$) and semileptonic ($D\to \mu+X$, $D\to e+X$) decays in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV Au+Au collisions. The transverse momentum ($p_T$) spectra and the nuclear modification factors for $D^0$ and for electron/muon from charm semileptonic decays will be presented. The differential cross section $d\sigma/dy$ is found to be consistent with the number of binary scaling. The blast-wave fit suggests that the charm hadron freeze out earlier than other light flavor hadrons.