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The Role of Produced Hadrons in J/psi Suppression

Nuclear Theory 2014-11-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Hadrons produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions can suppress the production of J/psi and other charmonium states by charmonium spontaneous dissociation as the hot hadronic environment alters the interaction between the charm quark and charm antiquark. Furthermore, hadrons can thermalize a charmonium to excite it to higher charmonium states which subsequently dissociate spontaneously. They can also collide with a charmonium to lead to its prompt dissociation into an open charm pair.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0209017,
  title  = {The Role of Produced Hadrons in J/psi Suppression},
  author = {Cheuk-Yin Wong and T. Barnes and E. S. Swanson and Horace W. Crater},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0209017},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

4 pages, in LaTex, talk presented at Quark Matter Conference 2002, July 18-24, 2002, Nante, France, to appear in the Proceedings