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Anomalous J/psi suppression and charmonium dissociation cross sections

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We study J/ψJ/\psi suppression in Pb+Pb collisions at CERN-SPS energies in hadronic matter with energy- and temperature-dependent charmonium dissociation cross sections calculated in the quark-interchange model of Barnes and Swanson. We find that the variation of J/ψ\psi survival probability from peripheral to central collisions can be explained as induced by hadronic matter absorption in central collisions.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0207018,
  title  = {Anomalous J/psi suppression and charmonium dissociation cross sections},
  author = {Xiao-Ming Xu and Cheuk-Yin Wong and T. Barnes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0207018},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

30 pages, 8 figures, LaTex, changed for the latest NA50 data