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Charmonium Composition and Nuclear Suppression

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-19 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study charmonium production in hadron-nucleus collisions through the intermediate next-to-leading Fock space component (cˉc)8g>|(\bar{c}c)_8 g>, formed by a colour octet cˉc\bar{c}c pair and a gluon. We estimate the size of this state and show that its interaction with nucleons accounts for the observed charmonium suppression in nuclear interactions.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9508276,
  title  = {Charmonium Composition and Nuclear Suppression},
  author = {D. Kharzeev and H. Satz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9508276},
  year   = {2010}
}

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