Observation of chi_c and chi_b nuclear suppression via dilepton polarization measurements

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2012-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/1203.2033v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

7 pages, 4 figures

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We demonstrate that it is possible to use the polarization of vector quarkonia, measured from dilepton event samples, as an instrument to study the suppression of chi_c and chi_b in heavy-ion collisions, where a direct determination of signal yields involving the identification of low-energy photons is essentially impossible. A change of the observed J/psi and Upsilon(1S) polarizations from proton-proton to central nucleus-nucleus collisions would directly reflect differences in the nuclear dissociation patterns of S and P states and may provide a strong indication for quarkonium sequential suppression in the quark-gluon plasma.

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