Phys. Rev. C 71, 044901 (2005) [8 pages]Collective flow of open and hidden charm in Au+Au collisions at √s=200 GeVReceived 21 September 2004; published 8 April 2005 We study the collective flow of open charm mesons and charmonia in Au+Au collisions at √s=200 GeV within the hadron-string-dynamics (HSD) transport approach. The detailed studies show that the coupling of D,D̅ mesons to the light hadrons leads to comparable directed and elliptic flow as for the light mesons. This also holds approximately for J/Ψ mesons since more than 50% of the final charmonia for central and midcentral collisions stem from D+D̅ induced reactions in the transport calculations. The transverse momentum spectra of D,D̅ mesons and J/Ψ's are only very moderately changed by the (pre-)hadronic interactions in HSD, which can be traced back to the collective flow generated by elastic interactions with the light hadrons. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.71.044901
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.71.044901
PACS:
25.75.−q, 13.60.Le, 14.40.Lb, 14.65.Dw
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