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New feature of low charm quark hadronization in collisions at TeV
Treating the light-flavor constituent quarks and antiquarks that can well
describe the data of light-flavor hadrons in collisions at
TeV as the underlying source of chromatically neutralizing the charm quarks of
low transverse momenta (), we show that the experimental data of
spectra of single-charm hadrons , ,
and at mid-rapidity in the low range
( GeV/) in collisions at TeV can
be well understood by the equal-velocity combination of perturbatively-created
charm quarks and those light-flavor constituent quarks and antiquarks. This
suggests a possible new scenario of low charm quark hadronization, in
contrast to the traditional fragmentation mechanism, in collisions at LHC
energies. This is also another support for the exhibition of the effective
constituent quark degrees of freedom for the small parton system created in
collisions at LHC energies.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
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