Sequential charmonium dissociation

Dec, 2005
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 637 (2006) 75-80
e-Print:
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