Production of D meson in Au+Au collision at = 200 GeV
Md Nasim (for the STAR Collaboration)🇺🇸
We present the invariant yield and elliptic flow of D as a function of transverse momentum in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV. The nuclear modification factors of D are found to be systematically higher than those of K . The ratio between the yields of strange and non-strange open charm mesons is shown. We find that such a ratio in 0-40 central Au+Au collisions is higher than the fragmentation baseline. Our measurement indicates a substantial enhancement of D production in Au+Au collisions with respect to p+p collisions as compared to non-strange D mesons. The elliptic flow of D is also measured and compared to that of D as well as model calculations.