2005
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s2004-02107-9
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A new measurement of $J/\psi$ suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 GeV per nucleon

Abstract: We present a new measurement of J/ψ production in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon, from the data sample collected in year 2000 by the NA50 Collaboration, under improved experimental conditions with respect to previous years. With the target system placed in vacuum, the setup was better adapted to study, in particular, the most peripheral nuclear collisions with unprecedented accuracy. The analysis of this data sample shows that the (J/ψ) / Drell-Yan cross-sections ratio measured in the most peripheral Pb-P… Show more

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“…Observations of a larger J=c and c ð2SÞ suppression in heavy-ion collisions with respect to proton-nucleus collisions were reported by the NA38 [9], NA50 [10,11], and NA60 [12] fixed-target experiments at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), respectively, in sulfur-uranium, leadlead, and indium-indium collisions, at center-of-mass energies per nucleon pair ( ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi s NN p ) of about 20 GeV. The PHENIX experiment, at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), extended the J=c suppression measurements to Au-Au collisions at ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi s NN p ¼ 200 GeV [13].…”
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confidence: 82%
“…Observations of a larger J=c and c ð2SÞ suppression in heavy-ion collisions with respect to proton-nucleus collisions were reported by the NA38 [9], NA50 [10,11], and NA60 [12] fixed-target experiments at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), respectively, in sulfur-uranium, leadlead, and indium-indium collisions, at center-of-mass energies per nucleon pair ( ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi s NN p ) of about 20 GeV. The PHENIX experiment, at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), extended the J=c suppression measurements to Au-Au collisions at ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi s NN p ¼ 200 GeV [13].…”
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“…In the charmonium sector, a significant suppression of the J/ψ yield has been observed at SPS [10][11][12] 2.76 TeV) energies. A qualitative description of the results can be obtained assuming that in addition to the dissociation by colour screening, a regeneration process takes place for high-energy collisions.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In the pure melting scenario, the relative production of ψ(2S) with respect to J/ψ is expected to be very small at the LHC [4], which is not the case if recombination occurs [16,17]. J/ψ suppression was observed experimentally in the most central heavy-nucleus collisions at the SPS [18,19], RHIC [20][21][22][23] and LHC [24][25][26][27][28], ranging from a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair ( √ s NN ) of about 17 GeV to 2.76 TeV. The ψ(2S) suppression was measured at the SPS [29] and the LHC [30].…”
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confidence: 99%