Quarkonium production and color deconfinement in nuclear collisions
May, 199616 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.A 610 (1996) 418C-433C
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- hep-ph/9609260 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- BI-TP-96-42
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Abstract:
The suppression of quarkonium production in nucleus-nucleus collisions was originally proposed as a signal of colour deconfinement. Strong ``anomalous" J/\psi suppression in Pb-Pb collisions has been reported at this Conference by the NA50 Collaboration. Is this suppression really anomalous? Can we conclude that the quark-gluon plasma is already discovered? What has to be done next? I address these questions basing on the current theoretical understanding of quarkonium production and new precise experimental information.Note:
- 16 pages, LaTeX, 6 figures, uses epsf.tex, espcrc1.sty (included); Invited talk given at the "Quark Matter 96" Conference, Heidelberg May 1996; to appear in the Proceedings Report-no: BI-TP/96-42
- talk: Heidelberg 1996/05/20
- nucleus nucleus: nuclear reaction
- hadron hadron: interaction
- p nucleus: nuclear reaction
- sulfur
- lead
- uranium
- quarkonium: hadroproduction
- J/psi(3100): hadroproduction
- quantum chromodynamics
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