Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2010-04-30
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
NA60 Collaboration, accepted for publication by Phys. Lett. B
Scientific paper
The NA60 experiment has studied J/psi production in p-A collisions at 158 and 400 GeV, at the CERN SPS. Nuclear effects on the J/psi yield have been estimated from the A-dependence of the production cross section ratios sigma_{J/psi}^{A}/sigma_{J/psi}^{Be} (A=Al, Cu, In, W, Pb, U). We observe a significant nuclear suppression of the J/psi yield per nucleon-nucleon collision, with a larger effect at lower incident energy, and we compare this result with previous observations by other fixed-target experiments. An attempt to disentangle the different contributions to the observed suppression has been carried out by studying the dependence of nuclear effects on x_2, the fraction of nucleon momentum carried by the interacting parton in the target nucleus.
Arnaldi Roberta
Banicz K.
Castor John
Chaurand B.
Chen Wei
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