Quarkonia measurements in heavy-ion collisions in CMS

The production of quarkonia is one of the most promising signals at the LHC for the study of the production properties of Quark Gluon Plasma. In addition to the J/psi, the extent to which upsilon is suppressed should give much insight into the new state of matter. The large muon acceptance and the high precision tracker make the CMS detector ideal for studies of this physics. In this note, the performance of the CMS detector for quarkonia measurements in heavy-ion collisions in the dimuon channel is presented. Dimuon reconstruction efficiencies and mass resolution are calculated using detailed detector simulation. Mass spectra and signal to background ratios are estimated with a fast Monte Carlo program. Results obtained with the fast Monte Carlo are compared with more detailed simulations.