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Title: D mesons in asymmetric nuclear matter

Journal Article · · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
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  1. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016 (India)

We calculate the in-medium D and D meson masses in isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter in an effective chiral model. The D and D mass modifications arising from their interactions with the nucleons and the scalar mesons in the effective hadronic model are seen to be appreciable at high densities and have a strong isospin dependence. These mass modifications can open the channels of the decay of the charmonium states ({psi}{sup '},{chi}{sub c},J/{psi}) to DD pairs in dense hadronic matter. The isospin asymmetry in the doublet D=(D{sup 0},D{sup +}) is seen to be particularly appreciable at high densities and should show in observables such as their production and flow in asymmetric heavy-ion collisions in the compressed baryonic matter experiments in the future facility of FAIR, GSI. The results of the present work are compared to calculations of the D(D) in-medium masses in the literature using the QCD sum rule approach, quark meson coupling model, and coupled channel approach as well as to those from studies of quarkonium dissociation using heavy-quark potentials from lattice QCD at finite temperatures.

OSTI ID:
21202727
Journal Information:
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 79, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.79.024908; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2813
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English