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Thermal Bottomonium Suppression at RHIC and LHC

Authors :
Strickland, Michael
Bazow, Dennis
Source :
Nuclear Physics A 879, 25-58 (2012)
Publication Year :
2011

Abstract

In this paper we consider the suppression of bottomonium states in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. We compute the suppression as a function of centrality, rapidity, and transverse momentum for the states Upsilon(1s), Upsilon(2s), Upsilon(3s), chi_b1, and chi_b2. Using this information, we then compute the inclusive Upsilon(1s) suppression as a function of centrality, rapidity, and transverse momentum including feed down effects. Calculations are performed for both RHIC sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV Au-Au collisions and LHC sqrt(s_NN)=2.76 TeV Pb-Pb collisions. From the comparison of our theoretical results with data available from the STAR and CMS Collaborations we are able to constrain the shear viscosity to entropy ratio to be in the range 0.08 < eta/S < 0.24. Our results are consistent with the creation of a high temperature quark-gluon plasma at both RHIC and LHC collision energies.<br />Comment: 38 pages, 15 figures; v4 - Published version

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Nuclear Physics A 879, 25-58 (2012)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1112.2761
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2012.02.003