First Measurement of Λc Baryon Production in Au+Au Collisions at sNN =200 GeV

(STAR Collaboration)

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.172301

First Measurement of Λc Baryon Production in Au+Au Collisions at sNN =200 GeV

(STAR Collaboration)

Brookhaven National Laboratory
AGH University of Krakow
Ohio State University
University of Kentucky
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Panjab University
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre India
Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
Texas A&M University
Central China Normal University
Kent State University
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur
University of California at Riverside
Stony Brook University
University of Houston
University of Jammu
Czech Technical University in Prague
Czech Academy of Sciences
Shandong University
Rice University
Yale University
University of California at Davis
University of California at Los Angeles
National Cheng Kung University
Fudan University
University of Science and Technology of China
Tsinghua University
Creighton University
University of California at Berkeley

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We report on the first measurement of the charmed baryon Λc± production at midrapidity (|y|<1) in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV collected by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The Λc/D0 [denoting (Λc++Λc-)/(D0+D¯0)] yield ratio is measured to be 1.08±0.16 (stat)±0.26 (sys) in the 0%-20% most central Au+Au collisions for the transverse momentum (pT) range 3<pT<6 GeV/c. This is significantly larger than the pythia model calculations for p+p collisions. The measured Λc/D0 ratio, as a function of pT and collision centrality, is comparable to the baryon-to-meson ratios for light and strange hadrons in Au+Au collisions. Model calculations including coalescence hadronization for charmed baryon and meson formation reproduce the features of our measured Λc/D0 ratio.

Original language	English
Article number	172301
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	124
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.172301
State	Published - May 1 2020

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First Measurement of Λc Baryon Production in Au+Au Collisions at sNN =200 GeV

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