J/ψ production versus centrality, transverse momentum, and rapidity in Au+Au collisions at √SNN=200 GeV

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作者
Adare, A. [1 ]
Afanasiev, S.
Aidala, C.
Ajitanand, N.
Akiba, Y.
Al-Bataineh, H.
Alexander, J.
Al-Jamel, A.
Aoki, K.
Aphecetche, L.
Armendariz, R.
Aronson, S. H.
Asai, J.
Atomssa, E. T.
Averbeck, R.
Awes, T. C.
Azmoun, B.
Babintsev, V.
Baksay, G.
Baksay, L.
Baldisseri, A.
Barish, K. N.
Barnes, D.
Bassalleck, B.
Bathe, S.
Batsouli, S.
Baublis, V.
Bauer, F.
Bazilevsky, A.
Belikov, S.
Bennett, R.
Berdnikov, Y.
Bickley, A. A.
Bjorndal, M. T.
Boissevain, J. G.
Borel, H.
Boyle, K.
Brooks, M. L.
Brown, D. S.
Bucher, D.
Buesching, H.
Bumazhnov, V.
Bunce, G.
Burward-Hoy, J. M.
Butsyk, S.
Campbell, S.
Chai, J.-S.
Chang, B. S.
Charvet, J.-L.
Chernichenko, S.
机构
[1] Abilene Christian Univ, Abilene, TX 79699 USA
[2] Banaras Hindu Univ, Dept Phys, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India
[3] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[4] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[5] Charles Univ Prague, Prague 11636, Czech Republic
[6] China Inst Atom Energy, Beijing, Peoples R China
[7] Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Sci, Ctr Nucl Study, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[8] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[9] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[10] Nevis Labs, New York, NY 10533 USA
[11] Czech Tech Univ, 16636 Prague 6, Czech Republic
[12] CEA Saclay, Dapnia, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[13] Debrecen Univ, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
[14] Eotvos Lorand Univ, ELTE, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
[15] Florida Inst Technol, Melbourne, FL 32901 USA
[16] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[17] Georgia State Univ, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
[18] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima 7398526, Japan
[19] Inst High Energy Phys, State Res Ctr Russian Federat, IHEP Protvino, Protvino 142281, Russia
[20] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[21] Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Phys, 18221 Prague 8, Czech Republic
[22] Iowa State Univ Sci & Technol, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[23] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna 141980, Moscow Reg, Russia
[24] KAERI, Cyclotron Applicat Lab, Seoul, South Korea
[25] KEK, High Energy Accelerator Res Org, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[26] Hungarian Acad Sci, MTA KFKI RMKI, KFKI Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
[27] Korea Univ, Seoul 136701, South Korea
[28] Russian Res Ctr, Kurchatov Inst, Moscow, Russia
[29] Kyoto Univ, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
[30] Ecole Polytech, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Leprince Ringuet, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[31] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[32] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[33] Univ Clermont Ferrand 2, CNRS, IN2P3, LPC, F-63177 Clermont Ferrand, France
[34] Lund Univ, Dept Phys, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
[35] Univ Munster, Inst Kernphys, D-48149 Munster, Germany
[36] Myongji Univ, Yongin 449728, Kyonggido, South Korea
[37] Nagasaki Inst Appl Sci, Nagasaki 8510193, Japan
[38] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[39] New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
[40] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[41] Univ Paris Sud, CNRS, IN2P3, IPN Orsay, F-91406 Orsay, France
[42] Peking Univ, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[43] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, Gatchina 188300, Leningrad Reg, Russia
[44] RIKEN, Inst Phys & Chem Res, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan
[45] Brookhaven Natl Lab, RIKEN BNL Res Ctr, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[46] Rikkyo Univ, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1718501, Japan
[47] St Petersburg State Univ, St Petersburg, Russia
[48] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, BR-05315970 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[49] Seoul Natl Univ, Syst Elect Lab, Seoul, South Korea
[50] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Chem, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.232301
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
The PHENIX experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has measured J/psi production for rapidities -2.2 < y < 2.2 in Au+Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV. The J/psi invariant yield and nuclear modification factor R-AA as a function of centrality, transverse momentum, and rapidity are reported. A suppression of J/psi relative to binary collision scaling of proton-proton reaction yields is observed. Models which describe the lower energy J/psi data at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron invoking only J/psi destruction based on the local medium density predict a significantly larger suppression at RHIC and more suppression at midrapidity than at forward rapidity. Both trends are contradicted by our data.
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