Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-08-31
Phys.Rev.C82:064905,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
18 pages, 30 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.82.064905
We set up a framework in which in-medium charmonium properties are constrained by thermal lattice QCD and subsequently implemented into a thermal rate equation enabling the comparison with experimental data in heavy-ion collisions. Specifically, we evaluate phenomenological consequences for charmonium production originating from two different scenarios in which either the free or the internal energy are identified with the in-medium 2-body potential between charm and anti-charm quarks. These two scenarios represent $J/\psi$ "melting temperatures" of approximately 1.25\,$T_c$ ("weak binding") and 2\,$T_c$ ("strong binding"), respectively. Within current uncertainties in dissociation rates and charm-quark momentum spectra, both scenarios can reproduce the centrality dependence of inclusive $J/\psi$ yields in nuclear collisions at SPS and RHIC reasonably well. However, the "strong-binding" scenario associated the the internal energy as the potential tends to better reproduce current data on transverse momentum spectra at both SPS and RHIC.
Rapp Ralf
Zhao Xingbo
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