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A quantitative reanalysis of charmonium suppression in nuclear collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-30 v3

Abstract

We present a quantitative description of J/ψJ/\psi and ψ\psi^\prime suppression in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at CERN energies. We use a conventional hadronic framework based on nuclear absorption plus final state interaction of the J/ψJ/\psi or ψ\psi^\prime with co-moving hadrons.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9705275,
  title  = {A quantitative reanalysis of charmonium suppression in nuclear collisions},
  author = {N. Armesto and A. Capella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9705275},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20 pages, LaTeX, 4 postscript figures included using epsfig; calculations redone, discussions extended, references updated and added, conclusions unchanged; final version, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B