Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2006-10-03
Nucl.Phys.A783:293-300,2007
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
Plenary talk given at Hard Probes 2006, June 9-16, 2006, Asilomar, CA, USA; 8 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.11.083
Heavy quarkonia production is expected to be sensitive to the formation of a quark gluon plasma (QGP). It was (and still is with ongoing data analyses) extensively studied at the CERN SPS, at collision energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ of the order of 20 GeV. An anomalous suppression was clearly observed. The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has presented preliminary results that exhibit a similar amount of $J/\psi$ suppression, at ten times higher collision energy. I review the results obtained at both facilities. While interpreting and comparing them, the importance of understanding normal nuclear effects is emphasized. A new method to derive a reference for Au+Au collisions from the centrality dependence of d+Au measurements at RHIC is exposed.
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