Medium Modifications and Production of Charmonia at LHC
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A previously constructed transport approach to calculate the evolution of quarkonium yields and spectra in heavy-ion collisions is applied to Pb Pb ( s = 2.76 A TeV ) collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this approach spectral properties of charmonia are constrained by Euclidean correlators from thermal lattice QCD and subsequently implemented into a Boltzmann equation accounting for both suppression and regeneration reactions. Based on a fair description of SPS and RHIC data, we provide predictions for the centrality dependence of J / ψ yields at LHC. The main uncertainty is associated with the input charm cross section, in particular its hitherto unknown reduction due to shadowing in nuclear collisions. Incomplete charm-quark thermalization and non-equilibrium in charmonium chemistry entail a marked reduction of the regeneration yield compared to the statistical equilibrium limit.Note:
- 7 pages, 9 eps figures
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- Quark-gluon plasma
- Charmonia
- Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
- Quark–gluon plasma
- quark gluon: plasma
- charmonium: production
- charmonium: mass spectrum
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