Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2003-06-09
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
7 pages, 11 figures. Expanded and updated version of a presentation to QNP-2002 (Juelich, 9-14 June 2002)
Scientific paper
10.1140/epja/i2002-10276-4
In this short review we summarize experimental information and theoretical results for the low-energy dissociation cross sections of charmonia by light hadrons. These cross sections are required for the simulation of charmonium absorption through collisions with comovers in heavy ion collisions, which competes with quark-gluon plasma production as a charmonium-suppression mechanism. If the cross sections are sufficiently large these dissociation reactions may be misinterpreted as an effect of quark-gluon plasma production. Theoretical predictions for these RHIC-related processes have used various methods, including a color-dipole scattering model, meson exchange models, constituent interchange models and QCD sum rules. As the results have been largely unconstrained by experiment, some of the predictions differ by orders of magnitude, notably in the near-threshold regime that is most relevant to QGP searches.
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