Charm decay as a source of multistrange hadrons

Abstract

We describe a newly formulated approach to account for charm production and decay in Statistical Hadronization approach. Considering Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV at LHC we show that charm hadron decays can be a significant contributor to the multistrange hadron abundance. We discuss the magnitude of expected effects as a function of charm yield.

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted as a proceedings of Strangeness in Quark Matter, 22-27 July 2013, Birmingham, UK