Eur. Phys. J. C (2007) 51: 113-133
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0268-9

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Heavy flavor hadrons in statistical hadronization of strangeness-rich QGP

Department of Physics, University of Arizona, 1118E. 4th Street, Tucson, AZ, 85721-0081, USA

^* e-mail: rafelski@physics.arizona.edu

Received: 18 July 2006
Revised: 9 February 2007
Published online: 1 June 2007

Abstract

We study b and c quark hadronization from QGP. We obtain the yields of charm and bottom flavored hadrons within the statistical hadronization model. The important novel feature of this study is that we take into account the high strangeness and entropy content of QGP, conserving the strangeness and entropy yields at hadronization.