Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-04-02
Nucl.Phys. A698 (2002) 575-578
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Presented at Quark Matter 2001, 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Proceedings
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0375-9474(01)01431-2
In central collisions at RHIC, the initial production of heavy quarks will for the first time yield multiple pairs of c-cbar in each central event. If a region of deconfined quarks and gluons is subsequently formed, a new mechanism for the formation of heavy quarkonium bound states will be activated. This will result from the mobility of heavy quarks in the deconfined region, such that bound states can be formed from a quark and an antiquark which were originally produced in separate incoherent interactions. Our model estimates of this effect predict a dramatic increase in the number of observed J/Psi at RHIC, over that predicted from extrapolation of color-screening or gluon dissociation mechanisms from the lower CERN-SPS energies. The centrality and energy dependence of this effect should be readily observable by the Star and Phenix detectors. Thus the J/Psi abundance at RHIC will continue to provide a signature of QGP formation. However, it is in this environment a more useful probe, since contrary to prior expectations this large predicted J/Psi abundance should be relatively easy to measure.
Rafelski Johann
Thews Robert L.
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