English

Charmonium dissociation and recombination at LHC: Revisiting comovers

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-03-12 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present our results on charmonium production at the Large Hadron Collider energies within the comover interaction model. The formalism includes both comover dissociation of J/ψJ/\psi's and possible secondary J/ψJ/\psi production through recombination. The estimation of this effect is made without involving free parameters. The comover interaction model also incorporates an analytic treatment of initial-state nuclear shadowing. With these tools, the model successfully describes the centrality, transverse momentum and rapidity dependence of the experimental data from PbPb collisions at the LHC energy of s=2.76\sqrt{s} = 2.76 TeV. We present predictions for PbPb collisions at s=5.5\sqrt{s} = 5.5 TeV.

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@article{arxiv.1210.3209,
  title  = {Charmonium dissociation and recombination at LHC: Revisiting comovers},
  author = {E. G. Ferreiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.3209},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Review and updated version to conform with published version.Several clarifying comments added, results unchanged. 17 pages, 12 figures