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Аннотация
Midrapidity open charm spectra from direct reconstruction of ${D}^{0}(\overline{{D}^{0}})\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{K}^{\ensuremath{\mp}}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}$ in $d+\mathrm{A}\mathrm{u}$ collisions and indirect electron-positron measurements via charm semileptonic decays in $p+p$ and $d+\mathrm{A}\mathrm{u}$ collisions at $\sqrt{{s}_{NN}}=200\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{G}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{V}$ are reported. The ${D}^{0}(\overline{{D}^{0}})$ spectrum covers a transverse momentum (${p}_{T}$) range of $0.1<{p}_{T}<3\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{G}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{V}/c$, whereas the electron spectra cover a range of $1<{p}_{T}<4\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{G}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{V}/c$. The electron spectra show approximate binary collision scaling between $p+p$ and $d+\mathrm{A}\mathrm{u}$ collisions. From these two independent analyses, the differential cross section per nucleon-nucleon binary interaction at midrapidity for open charm production from $d+\mathrm{A}\mathrm{u}$ collisions at BNL RHIC is $d{\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{c\overline{c}}^{NN}/dy=0.30\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.04(\mathrm{s}\mathrm{t}\mathrm{a}\mathrm{t})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.09(\mathrm{s}\mathrm{y}\mathrm{s}\mathrm{t})\text{ }\mathrm{m}\mathrm{b}$. The results are compared to theoretical calculations. Implications for charmonium results in $A+A$ collisions are discussed.
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