2024-10-31
First $D^0+\overline{D}^0$ measurement in heavy-ion collisions at SPS energies with NA61/SHINE
2024-10-31 • Anastasia Merzlaya, the NA Collaboration
The measurement of open charm meson production provides a tool for the investigation of the properties of the hot and dense matter created in nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energies. In particular, charm mesons are of vivid interest in the context of the study of the nature of the phase-transition between confined hadronic matter and the quark-gluon plasma. Recently, the experimental setup of the NA61/SHINE experiment was upgraded with the high spatial resolution Vertex Detector which enables the recon…