Sequential charmonium dissociation
Dec, 2005
10 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 637 (2006) 75-80
e-Print:
- hep-ph/0512239 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- BNL-NT-05-50
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Abstract:
Finite temperature lattice QCD indicates that the charmonium ground state J/psi can survive in a quark-gluon plasma up to 1.5 T_c or more, while the excited states chi_c and psi-prime are dissociated just above T_c. We assume that the chi_c suffers the same form of suppression as that observed for the psi-prime in SPS experiments, and that the directly produced J/psi is unaffected at presently available energy densities. This provides a parameter-free description of J/psi and psi-prime suppression which agrees quite well with that observed in SPS and RHIC data.Note:
- 10 pages, 8 figures Report-no: BNL-NT-05/50
- scattering: heavy ion
- quarkonium: dissociation
- charmonium
- J/psi(3100)
- psi(3685)
- chi mesons
- quark gluon: plasma
- quantum chromodynamics
- lattice field theory
- finite temperature
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