Parton percolation and J / psi suppression

Jul, 2002
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 549 (2002) 101-108
e-Print:
Report number:
  • BI-TP-2002-14

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Abstract:
The geometric clustering of partons in the transverse plane of nuclear collisions leads for increasing A or sqrt(s) to percolation. In the resulting condensate, the partons are deconfined but not yet in thermal equilibrium. We discuss quarkonium dissociation in this precursor of the quark-gluon plasma, with an onset of dissociation when the saturation scale of the parton condensate reaches that of the given quarkonium state.
Note:
  • 13 pages latex file, 7 eps figures Report-no: BI-TP 2002/14
  • scattering: heavy ion
  • J/psi(3100): hadroproduction
  • J/psi(3100): yield
  • momentum spectrum: parton
  • cluster
  • critical phenomena: percolation
  • quarkonium: dissociation
  • charmonium
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • numerical calculations