Parton Percolation and J/Psi Suppression
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
The geometric clustering of partons in the transverse plane of nuclear collisions leads for increasing A or sqrt(s) to percolation. In the resulting condensate, the partons are deconfined but not yet in thermal equilibrium. We discuss quarkonium dissociation in this precursor of the quark-gluon plasma, with an onset of dissociation when the saturation scale of the parton condensate reaches that of the given quarkonium state.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0207264,
title = {Parton Percolation and J/Psi Suppression},
author = {S. Digal and S. Fortunato and P. Petreczky and H. Satz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0207264},
year = {2009}
}
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13 pages latex file, 7 eps figures