Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-01-20
JHEP 0902:014,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
23 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/02/014
Charmonium states are expected to be considerably suppressed in the case of quark-gluon plasma formation in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. However, a robust identification of suppression patterns as signatures of a deconfined QCD medium requires a detailed understanding of the "normal nuclear absorption" already present in proton-nucleus collisions, where the charmonium production cross sections increase less than linearly with the number of target nucleons. We analyse the J/psi production cross sections measured in proton-nucleus collisions in fixed target experiments, with proton beam energies from 200 to 920 GeV, and in d-Au collisions at RHIC, at sqrt(s)=200 GeV, in the framework of the Glauber formalism, using several sets of parton distributions with and without nuclear modifications. The results reveal a significant dependence of the "absorption cross section" on the kinematics of the J/psi and on the collision energy. Extrapolating the observed patterns we derive the level of absorption expected at Elab=158 GeV, the energy at which the heavy-ion data sets were collected at the CERN SPS.
Lourenço Carlos
Vogt Ramona
Woehri Hermine K.
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