The onset of the anomalous J/$\psi$ suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at the CERN SPS

The $J/\psi$ suppression observed by the NA50 experiment is one of the most striking signatures for quark gluon plasma formation in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 AGeV. The $J/\psi$ production has been studied as a function of the centrality of the collision estimated via the forward energy EZDC released i...

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Autores principales: Arnaldi, R., Abreu, M.C., Alessandro, B., Alexa, C., Atayan, M., Baglin, C., Baldit, A., Bedjidian, M., Beole, S., Boldea, V., Bordalo, P., Borenstein, S.R., Borges, G., Bussiere, A., Capelli, L., Castor, J., Castanier, C., Chaurand, B., Cheynis, B., Chiavassa, E., Cicalo, C., Claudino, T., Comets, M.P., Constans, N., Constantinescu, S., Cortese, P., Cruz, J., De Marco, N., De Falco, A., Dellacasa, G., Devaux, A., Dita, S., Drapier, O., Espagnon, B., Fargeix, J., Force, P., Gallio, M., Gavrilov, Y.K., Gerschel, C., Giubellino, P., Golubeva, M.B., Gonin, M., Grigorian, A.A., Grigorian, S., Grossiord, J.Y., Guber, F.F., Guichard, A., Gulkanyan, H., Hakobyan, R., Haroutunian, R., Idzik, M., Jouan, D., Karavitcheva, T.L., Kluberg, L., Kurepin, A.B., Bornec, Y.Le, Lourenco, C., Macciotta, P., MacCormick, M., Marzari-Chiesa, A., Masera, M., Masoni, A., Monteno, M., Musso, A., Petiau, P., Piccotti, A., Pizzi, J.R., Prado da Silva, W., Prino, F., Puddu, G., Quintans, C., Ramos, S., Ramello, L., Rato Mendes, P., Riccati, L., Romana, A., Santos, H., Saturnini, P., Scalas, E., Scomparin, E., Serci, S., Shahoyan, R., Sigaudo, F., Silva, S., Sitta, M., Sonderegger, P., Tarrago, X., Topilskaya, N.S., Usai, G.L., Vercellin, E., Villatte, L., Willis, N.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2001
Materias:
Particle Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/517785
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Sumario:The $J/\psi$ suppression observed by the NA50 experiment is one of the most striking signatures for quark gluon plasma formation in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 AGeV. The $J/\psi$ production has been studied as a function of the centrality of the collision estimated via the forward energy EZDC released in a zero degree calorimeter (ZDC). The study of the correlation between the number of participant nucleons in the collisions, Npart, and EZDC allows to check whether the $J/\psi$ suppression pattern vs. EZDC is compatible with a sudden $J/\psi$ suppression mechanism expressed as a function of Npart.

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