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String Clustering and J/Psi Suppression in Nuclear Collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-07-19 v1

Abstract

We study the clustering of colour strings in the transverse plane of nucleus-nucleus collisions and argue that deconfinement sets in when the string density within a cluster reaches a critical value. We show that this implies a minimal cluster size at the onset of deconfinement, which in turn results in discontinuous behaviour for J/Psi suppression.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9805247,
  title  = {String Clustering and J/Psi Suppression in Nuclear Collisions},
  author = {M. Nardi and H. Satz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9805247},
  year   = {2011}
}

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9 pages, latex, three figures (included)

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