suppression in heavy ion collisions at the CERN SPS
Oct, 199812 pages
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- Phys.Rev.C 59 (1999) 1651-1662
- Published: 1999
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- nucl-th/9810064 [nucl-th]
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Abstract:
We reexamine the production of J/Psi and other charmonium states for a variety of target-projectile choices at the SPS, in particular for the interesting comparison between S+U at 200 GeV/c and Pb+Pb at 158 GeV/c as observed in the experiments NA38 and NA50 respectively. The result is a description of the NA38 and NA50 data in terms of a conventional, quasi-hadronic picture. The apparently anomalous suppression found in the most massive Pb+Pb system arises in the present simulation from three sources: destruction in the initial nucleon-nucleon cascade phase, use of coupled channels to exploit the larger breakup in the less bound Chi and Psi' states, and comover interaction in the final low energy phase.- scattering: heavy ion
- sulfur
- uranium
- lead
- p nucleus: nuclear reaction
- charmonium
- quarkonium: hadroproduction
- quarkonium: hadron spectroscopy
- chi mesons: decay modes
- Drell-Yan process
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