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$J/\psi$ suppression in heavy ion collsions and the QCD phase transition

Nuclear Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We suggest that the new regime of J/ψJ/\psi suppression in Pb-Pb collisions found by the NA50 experiment at CERN is the result of non-trivial space-time evolution due to specific behavior of the Equation of State (EOS) near the QCD phase transition. We also study another suppression channel, the conversion of J/ψJ/\psi into ηc\eta_c during the late cool hadronic stage, and find it rather inefficient.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9801016,
  title  = {$J/\psi$ suppression in heavy ion collsions and the QCD phase transition},
  author = {E. Shuryak and D. Teaney},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9801016},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures