English

Hydrodynamical model for $J/\psi$ suppression and elliptic flow

Nuclear Theory 2009-10-29 v2

Abstract

In a hydrodynamic model, we have studied J/ψJ/\psi suppression and elliptic flow in Au+Au collisions at RHIC energy s\sqrt{s}=200 GeV. At the initial time, J/ψJ/\psi's are randomly distributed in the fluid. As the fluid evolve in time, the free streaming J/ψJ/\psi's are dissolved if the local fluid temperature exceeds a melting temperature TJ/ψT_{J/\psi}. Sequential melting of charmonium states (χc\chi_c, ψ\psi\prime and J/ψJ/\psi), with melting temperatures Tχc=Tψ1.2TcT_{\chi_c}=T_{\psi\prime} \approx 1.2T_c, TJ/ψ2TcT_{J/\psi} \approx2T_c and feed-down fraction F0.3F\approx 0.3, is consistent with the PHENIX data on J/ψJ/\psi suppression and near zero elliptic flow for J/ψJ/\psi's. It is also shown that the model will require substantial regeneration of charmoniums, if the charmonium states dissolve at temperature close to the critical temperature, Tχc=TψTcT_{\chi_c}=T_{\psi\prime} \leq T_c, TJ/ψ1.2TcT_{J/\psi}\approx1.2T_c. The regenerated charmoniums will have positive elliptic flow.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0907.3364,
  title  = {Hydrodynamical model for $J/\psi$ suppression and elliptic flow},
  author = {A. K. Chaudhuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.3364},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Phys Rev. C

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