Medium Modifications and Production of Charmonia at LHC

Feb, 2011
7 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.A 859 (2011) 114-125
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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
  • 14.40.Pq
  • 12.38.Mh
  • 25.75.-q
  • Quark-gluon plasma
  • Charmonia
  • Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
  • Quark–gluon plasma
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • charmonium: production
  • charmonium: mass spectrum