J/$\psi$ suppression at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV
Abstract
The ALICE experiment has measured the inclusive J/ production in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV down to zero transverse momentum in the rapidity range . A suppression of the inclusive J/ yield in Pb-Pb is observed with respect to the one measured in pp collisions scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions. The nuclear modification factor, integrated over the 0-80% most central collisions, is and does not exhibit a significant dependence on the collision centrality. These features appear significantly different from measurements at lower collision energies. Models including J/ production from charm quarks in a deconfined partonic phase can describe our data.
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@article{arxiv.1202.1383,
title = {J/$\psi$ suppression at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV},
author = {ALICE Collaboration},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.1383},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
17 pages, 4 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 12, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/3078