First $D^0+\overline{D}^0$ measurement in heavy-ion collisions at SPS energies with NA61/SHINE

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Main Authors: Merzlaya, Anastasia, Collaboration, the NA61/SHINE
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author Merzlaya, Anastasia
Collaboration, the NA61/SHINE
author_facet Merzlaya, Anastasia
Collaboration, the NA61/SHINE
contents The measurement of open charm meson production provides a tool for the investigation of the properties of the hot and dense matter created in nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energies. In particular, charm mesons are of vivid interest in the context of the study of the nature of the phase-transition between confined hadronic matter and the quark-gluon plasma. Recently, the experimental setup of the NA61/SHINE experiment was upgraded with the high spatial resolution Vertex Detector which enables the reconstruction of secondary vertices from open charm meson decays. In this presentation the first $D^0$ meson yields at the SPS energy regime will be shown. The analysis used the most central 20\% of Xe+La collisions at 150A GeV/c from the data set collected in 2017. This allowed the estimation of the corrected yields (dN/dy) for $D^0+\overline{D}^0$ via its $π^{+/-} + K^{-/+}$ decay channel at mid-rapidity in the center-of-mass system. The results will be compared and discussed in the context of several model calculations including statistical and dynamical approaches
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spellingShingle First $D^0+\overline{D}^0$ measurement in heavy-ion collisions at SPS energies with NA61/SHINE
Merzlaya, Anastasia
Collaboration, the NA61/SHINE
Nuclear Experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
The measurement of open charm meson production provides a tool for the investigation of the properties of the hot and dense matter created in nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energies. In particular, charm mesons are of vivid interest in the context of the study of the nature of the phase-transition between confined hadronic matter and the quark-gluon plasma. Recently, the experimental setup of the NA61/SHINE experiment was upgraded with the high spatial resolution Vertex Detector which enables the reconstruction of secondary vertices from open charm meson decays. In this presentation the first $D^0$ meson yields at the SPS energy regime will be shown. The analysis used the most central 20\% of Xe+La collisions at 150A GeV/c from the data set collected in 2017. This allowed the estimation of the corrected yields (dN/dy) for $D^0+\overline{D}^0$ via its $π^{+/-} + K^{-/+}$ decay channel at mid-rapidity in the center-of-mass system. The results will be compared and discussed in the context of several model calculations including statistical and dynamical approaches
title First $D^0+\overline{D}^0$ measurement in heavy-ion collisions at SPS energies with NA61/SHINE
topic Nuclear Experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.24014