Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2003-07-16
Phys.Rev. C69 (2004) 014904
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
10 pages, 5 figures (one with color)
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.69.014904
We discuss the new data for the production of the $\psi'$ meson in pA collisions at 450 GeV at CERN-SPS (of the NA50-collaboration) [1]. We extract from the CERN data $\sigma(\psi' N)\approx 8$ mb under the assumption that the $\psi'$ is produced as a result of the space-time evolution of a point-like $c\bar c$ pair which expands with time to the full size of the charmonium state. In the analysis we assume the existence of a relationship between the distribution of color in a hadron and the cross section of its interaction with a nucleon. However, our result is rather sensitive to the pattern of the expansion of the wave packet and significantly larger values of $\sigma(\psi' N)$ are not ruled out by the data. We show that recent CERN data confirm the suggestion of [2] that color fluctuations of the strengths in charmonium-nucleon interaction are the major source of suppression of the $J/\psi$ yield as observed at CERN in both pA and AA collisions.
Frankfurt Leonid L.
Gerland Lars
Stocker Horst
Strikman Mark
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