Measurement of the Open Charm Cross-Section in 200 GeV Heavy-Ion Collisions at STAR

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We report on measurements of open charm production through both hadronic and semi-leptonic decay channels in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV heavy ion collision at the STAR experiment at RHIC.

• We compare experimental results to theoretical predictions from pQCD.
• The open charm $R_{AA}$ is also presented as evidence of possible medium-induced energy loss.