J/Psi production in heavy ion collisions and gluon saturation

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2009-01-01
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Kharzeev, Dmitri
Levin, Eugene
Nardi, Marzia
Tuchin, Kirill
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We calculate the inclusive J/Psi production in heavy ion collisions including the effects of gluon saturation in the wave functions of the colliding nuclei. We argue that the dominant production mechanism in proton–nucleus and nucleus–nucleus collisions for heavy nuclei is different from the one in hadron–hadron interactions. We find that the rapidity distribution of primary J/Psi production is more peaked around midrapidity than the analogous distribution in elementary pp collisions. We discuss the consequences of this fact on the experimentally observed J/Psi suppression in Au–Au collisions at RHIC energies.

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NOTICE: This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics A. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Nuclear Physics A, v.826 (2009): doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.06.016.

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