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Quarkonium Production and Medium Effects in High Energy Nuclear Collisions

Nuclear Theory 2013-10-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Color screening and regeneration are both hot medium effects on quarkonium production in high energy nuclear collisions. However, they affect in an opposite way the finally observed quarkonium spectra. Due to the competition of the two dynamical effects, the ratio of the integrated quarkonium yield between nuclear and elementary nucleon collisions loses its sensitivity. Once the information of quarkonium transverse motion is included, on the other hand, the ratio of averaged transverse momentum square reveals the nature of the QCD medium created in high energy nuclear collisions.

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@article{arxiv.1309.7520,
  title  = {Quarkonium Production and Medium Effects in High Energy Nuclear Collisions},
  author = {Kai Zhou and Nu Xu and Pengfei Zhuang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.7520},
  year   = {2013}
}

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4 pages,4 figures