In-Medium formation of J/Psi as a probe of charm quark thermalization

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2005-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0510390v1

AIPConf.Proc.828:303-308,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

6 pages, 4 figures, invited talk at the 35'th International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics 2005, Kromeriz, Czech Republic

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2197432

Charmonium formation via charm quark in-medium recombination in heavy ion interactions at collider energies has the potential to probe some properties of the medium by utilizing the sensitivity of the recombination process to the momentum distribution of the quarks. We have examined the transverse momentum spectra of J/Psi, characterized by , which result from the formation process in which the charm quark distributions are unchanged from their initial production in a pQCD process. This is contrasted with the case in which the charm quarks have completely come into thermal equilibrium with an expanding medium whose properties are determined by the spectra of produced light hadrons. We find that the resulting of the formed J/Psi provide a distinct signature of the underlying charm quark spectra, and that signature is essentially independent of the detailed dynamics of the in-medium formation reaction. In addition, both of these signatures are sufficiently separated from the case in which no in-medium formation takes place. Finally, utilizing a model for the fraction of J/Psi which originate from in-medium formation, we predict the centrality behavior of these signatures.

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