Charmonium suppression at RHIC and SPS: a hadronic baseline
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-18 v3 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
A kinetic equation approach is applied to model anomalous J/psi suppression at RHIC and SPS by absorption in a hadron resonance gas which successfully describes statistical hadron production in both experiments. The puzzling rapidity dependence of the PHENIX data is reproduced as a geometric effect due to a longer absorption path for J/psi production at forward rapidity.
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@article{arxiv.0901.0166,
title = {Charmonium suppression at RHIC and SPS: a hadronic baseline},
author = {D. Prorok and L. Turko and D. Blaschke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.0166},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
16 pages, 6 figures, final version accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B