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Re-assessing the anomalous J/psi-suppression in the CERN NA50 data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

A systematic analysis of the L-dependence of the J/psi-suppression in the data of the CERN NA38 and NA50 experiments shows that the anomalous suppression in the 1995 Pb-Pb data is at best a 4σ\sigma effect at any of the L-values for the Pb-Pb data, where L is the geometrical mean path length of the J/psi in the colliding nuclei. Possible implications for the 1996 data are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9807554,
  title  = {Re-assessing the anomalous J/psi-suppression in the CERN NA50 data},
  author = {Rajiv V. Gavai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9807554},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, Latex with epsfig, 2 figures (PS-files)