Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2001-05-07
Phys.Rev. C65 (2002) 054908
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
20 pages, 4 postscript figures One modified equation and one added table. No modifications in results and figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.65.054908
We study the ratio of $J/\psi$ over minimum bias in $Pb$ $Pb$ collisions at SPS energy. The NA50 data exhibit a sharp turn-over at $E_T \sim 100$ GeV (close to the knee of the $E_T$ distribution) followed by a steady, steep decrease at larger $E_T$. We show that this behaviour can be explained by the combined effects of a small decrease of the hadronic $E_T$ in the $J/\psi$ event sample (due to the $E_T$ taken by the $J/\psi$ trigger), together with the sharp decrease of the $E_T$ distributions in this $E_T$ region (tail). This phenomenon does not affect the (true) ratio $J/\psi$ over $DY$ (obtained by the NA50 standard analysis), but does affect the one obtained by the so-called minimum bias analysis. A good agreement is obtained with the data coming from both analysis -- as well as with the ratios of $J/\psi$ and $DY$ over minimum bias -- in the whole $E_{T}$ region.
Capella Antonio
Kaidalov Alexei B.
Sousa D.
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