Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on Quarkonium Production from the SPS to the LHC
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Total Pages | : 5 |
Release | : 2009 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1061380997 |
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Rating | : 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The J/?,???????? and?c production yields are expected to be considerably suppressed in a quark-gluon plasma. In addition, the? states, with the possible exception of the 1S state, are also expected to be suppressed. However, in proton-nucleus collisions all the quarkonium production cross sections scale less than linearly with the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions. These 'cold nuclear matter' effects need to be accounted for before signals of the high density QCD medium can be identified in the measurements made in nucleus-nucleus collisions. There are two cold nuclear matter effects important for midrapidity quarkonium production: 'nuclear absorption', a final-state effect, and shadowing, an initial-state effect. We characterize these effects and study their energy and rapidity dependence.