Study of psi' and chi_c decays as feed-down sources of J/psi hadro-production

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2008-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/0809.2153v1

JHEP 0810:004,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

12 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/004

The interpretation of the J/psi suppression patterns observed in nuclear collisions, at CERN and RHIC, as a signature of the formation of a deconfined phase of QCD matter, requires knowing which fractions of the measured J/psi yields, in pp collisions, are due to decays of heavier charmonium states. From a detailed analysis of the available mid-rapidity charmonium hadro-production cross sections, or their ratios, we determine that the J/psi feed-down contributions from psi' and chi_c decays are, respectively, (8.1 +/- 0.3) % and (25 +/- 5) %. These proton-proton values are derived from global averages of the proton-nucleus measurements, assuming that the charmonium states are exponentially absorbed with the length of matter they traverse in the nuclear targets.

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