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Quarkonium suppression from coherent energy loss in fixed-target experiments using LHC beams

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-04-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Quarkonium production in proton-nucleus collisions is a powerful tool to disentangle cold nuclear matter effects. A model based on coherent energy loss is able to explain the available quarkonium suppression data in a broad range of rapidities, from fixed-target to collider energies, suggesting cold energy loss to be the dominant effect in quarkonium suppression in p-A collisions. This could be further tested in a high-energy fixed-target experiment using a proton or nucleus beam. The nuclear modification factors of J/ψ\psi and Υ\Upsilon as a function of rapidity are computed in p-A collisions at s=114.6\sqrt{s}=114.6 GeV, and in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at s=72\sqrt{s}=72 GeV. These center-of-mass energies correspond to the collision on fixed-target nuclei of 7 TeV protons and 2.76 TeV lead nuclei available at the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1504.07428,
  title  = {Quarkonium suppression from coherent energy loss in fixed-target experiments using LHC beams},
  author = {François Arleo and Stéphane Peigné},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.07428},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures