Quarkonia production at RHIC
Abstract
Quarkonia (J/Psi, Psi', Upsilon) production provides a sensitive probe of gluon distributions and their modification in nuclei; and is a leading probe of the hot-dense (deconfined) matter created in high-energy collisions of heavy ions. I will discuss our current understanding of the modification of gluon distributions in nuclei and other cold-nuclear-matter effects in the context of recent p-p and p(d)-A quarkonia measurements. Then I will review the latest results for nucleus-nucleus collisions from RHIC, and together with the baseline results from d-A and p-p collisions, discuss several alternative explanations for the observed suppressions and future prospects for distinguishing these different pictures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0607010,
title = {Quarkonia production at RHIC},
author = {M. J. Leitch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0607010},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages including figures, writeup of talk given at Strange Quark Matter 2006, UCLA 26-31 March, 2006