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    New feature of low pTp_{T} charm quark hadronization in pppp collisions at s=7\sqrt{s}=7 TeV

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    Treating the light-flavor constituent quarks and antiquarks that can well describe the data of light-flavor hadrons in pppp collisions at s=7\sqrt{s}=7 TeV as the underlying source of chromatically neutralizing the charm quarks of low transverse momenta (pTp_{T}), we show that the experimental data of pTp_{T} spectra of single-charm hadrons D0,+D^{0,+}, Dβˆ—+D^{*+} Ds+D_{s}^{+}, Ξ›c+\Lambda_{c}^{+} and Ξc0\Xi_{c}^{0} at mid-rapidity in the low pTp_{T} range (2≲pT≲72\lesssim p_{T}\lesssim7 GeV/cc) in pppp collisions at s=7\sqrt{s}=7 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 pTp_{T} charm quark hadronization, in contrast to the traditional fragmentation mechanism, in pppp 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 pppp collisions at LHC energies.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
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