Monday, April 23, 2012

1204.4609 (François Arleo et al.)

J/psi suppression in p-A collisions from parton energy loss in cold QCD
matter
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François Arleo, Stéphane Peigné
The effects of energy loss in cold nuclear matter on J/psi suppression in p-A collisions are studied. A simple model based on first principles and depending on a single free parameter is able to reproduce J/psi suppression data at large xF and at various center-of-mass energies. These results strongly support energy loss as a dominant effect in quarkonium suppression. They also give some hint on its hadroproduction mechanism suggesting color neutralization to happen on long time-scales. Predictions for J/psi and Upsilon suppression in p-Pb collisions at the LHC are made.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4609

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