1. Role of gluon depletion in J/ψ suppression
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Jan Pisut, Rudolph C. Hwa, and N. Pisutova
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Hadron ,Parton ,01 natural sciences ,Gluon ,Nuclear physics ,Formalism (philosophy of mathematics) ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,0103 physical sciences ,medicine ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Nuclear theory ,Nucleus ,Production rate - Abstract
The depletion of gluons as the parton flux traverses a nucleus in a heavy-ion collision can influence the production rate of heavy-quark states. Thus the suppression of J/{psi} can be due to gluon depletion in the initial state in addition to nuclear and hadronic absorption in the final state. A formalism is developed to describe the depletion effect. It is shown that, without constraints from other experimental facts beside the J/{psi} suppression data in pA and AB collisions, it is not possible to determine the relative importance of depletion vs absorption. Possible relevance to the enhanced suppression seen in the Pb-Pb data is mentioned but not studied. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}
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- 1997
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