Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2003-05-20
J.Phys. G29 (2003) L59-L66
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
10 pages, LaTeX, 3 PS-figures. V2: Misprints are corrected
Scientific paper
10.1088/0954-3899/29/10/102
A recently published experimental dependence of the J/psi to Drell-Yan ratio on the measured, by a zero degree calorimeter, forward energy E_ZDC in Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN SPS is analyzed. Using a model-independent approach it is shown that the data are at variance with an earlier published experimental dependence of the same quantity on the transverse energy of neutral hadrons E_T. The discrepancy is related to a moderate centrality region: 100 < N_p < 200 (N_p is the number of participant nucleons) and is peculiar only to the data obtained within the `minimum bias' analysis (using the `theoretical Drell-Yan'). This could result from systematic experimental errors in the minimum bias sample. A possible source of the errors is discussed.
Greiner Walter
Kostyuk A. P.
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