J/ψ production in Au-Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV

Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics Volume 69 Issue 1 Page 014901-1-014901-10 published_at 2004-01-26
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Title ( eng )
J/ψ production in Au-Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV
Creator
PHENIX Collaboration
Enokizono Akitomo
Hachiya Takashi
Kohama Takeshi
Nakamura Tomoaki
Source Title
Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume 69
Issue 1
Start Page 014901-1
End Page 014901-10
Abstract
First results on charm quarkonia production in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are presented. The yield of J/ψ's measured in the PHENIX experiment via electron-positron decay pairs at midrapidity for Au-Au reactions at √SNN=200 GeV is analyzed as a function of collision centrality. For this analysis we have studied 49.3 × 106 minimum bias Au-Au reactions. We present the J/ψ invariant yield dN/dy for peripheral and midcentral reactions. For the most central collisions where we observe no signal above background, we quote 90% confidence level upper limits. We compare these results with our J/ψ measurement from proton-proton reactions at the same energy. We find that our measurements are not consistent with models that predict strong enhancement relative to binary collision scaling.
Keywords
heavy ion-nucleus reactions
quark production
charm particles
psi mesons
gold
nuclear matter
quark-gluon plasma
Language
eng
Resource Type journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Date of Issued 2004-01-26
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Copyright (c) 2004 The American Physical Society.
Publish Type Version of Record
Access Rights open access
Source Identifier
[ISSN] 0556-2813
[DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevC.69.014901
[NCID] AA00773613
[DOI] http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.69.014901