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Register a new userNucleon number dependence of the onset of anomalous J/psi suppression and the dynamics of nuclear collisions
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Anna Nogova
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We point out that data on the onset of anomalous J/psi suppression as a function of nucleon numbers A and B could provide information on the dynamics of nuclear interactions. In particular the models of anomalous J/psi suppression by Blaizot and Ollitrault (BO) and by Kharzeev, Lourenco, Nardi and Satz (KLNS) are based on different assumptions on the dynamics of nuclear collisions and lead to different predictions of the dependence of the onset of anomalous J/psi suppression on nucleon numbers of colliding nuclei. The data on this onset as function of A and B could become a tool for the study of the dynamics of nuclear collisions and bring further evidence on J/psi suppression by new form of hadronic matter, possibly Quark-Gluon Plasma. In particular we propose to study J/psi suppression in A+Pb interaction with nucleon number of A between 58 and 73 or a bit higher.
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The enhanced suppression of $J/psi$ production at large $x_F$ in $pA$ collisions is studied in the framework of gluon depletion at large $x_1$. The nonperturbative process that modifies the gluon distribution as the gluons propagate in nuclear matter is described by an evolution equation with a kernal to be determined by phenomenology. With nuclear shadowing and anti-shadowing taken into account, the effect on the gluon distribution is shown to be a depletion in excess of 40% at $x_1 approx 0.8$ for $A > 100$. There is a small amount of enhancement of the gluon distribution at small $x_1$, but it does not lead to any contradiction with the existing data on $J/psi$ suppression in the central region. Extentions to $psi^{prime}$ suppression and $AB$ collisions are also investigated in the framework of gluon redistribution.
The NA60 experiment has studied J/$psi$ production in Indium-Indium collisions at 158 A$cdot$GeV. In this paper we present an updated set of results obtained with the complete set of available statistics and an improved alignment of the vertex tracker. The centrality dependence of the J/$psi$ production, obtained with an analysis technique based only on the J/$psi$ sample, indicates that a suppression beyond that induced by nuclear absorption is present in In-In collisions, setting in at $sim$80 participant nucleons. A first study of the systematic errors related with this measurement is discussed. We also present preliminary results on the J/$psi$ azimuthal distributions.
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We propose an alternative way of looking at data on anomalous J/psi suppression. The proposed method is in principle equivalent to the one used by the NA50 Collaboration, but it permits to visualize separate contributions of individual processes responsible for the disintegration of J/psis produced by a hard process in nuclear collisions. The method can be used provided that the time sequence of contributing mechanisms is known or assumed. It offers an alternative graphical presentation of the onset of anomalous J/psi suppression in Pb-Pb interactions observed by the NA50 Collaboration at the CERN SPS and might contribute to explain why different mechanisms, such as J/psi suppression by the Quark-Gluon Plasma and by co-movers in the Dual Parton Model or in Monte Carlo microscopic approaches, all lead to an approximate description of anomalous J/psi suppression.
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