S. Kelly
University of Colorado Boulder
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Physics Letters B | 2003
S. Batsouli; S. Kelly; Miklos Gyulassy; J. L. Nagle
Abstract Recent PHENIX Au+Au→ e − + X data [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 192303] from open charm decay are shown to be consistent with two extreme opposite dynamical scenarios of ultra-relativistic nuclear reactions. Perturbative QCD without final state interactions was previously shown to be consistent with the data. However, we show that the data are also consistent with zero mean free path hydrodynamics characterized by a common transverse flow velocity field. The surprising coincidence of both D and B hydrodynamic flow spectra with pQCD up to p T ≈3 and 5 GeV, respectively, suggests that heavy quarks may be produced essentially at rest in the rapidly expanding gluon plasma. Possible implications and further tests of collective heavy quark dynamics are discussed.
