Measurement of inclusive J/ψ suppression in Au+Au collisions at s<inf>NN</inf>=200 GeV through the dimuon channel at STAR
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2019-10-10Author
Adam, JAdamczyk, L
Adams, JR
Adkins, JK
Agakishiev, G
Aggarwal, MM
Ahammed, Z
Alekseev, I
Anderson, DM
Aoyama, RAparin, AArkhipkin, DAschenauer, ECAshraf, MUAtetalla, FAttri, AAverichev, GSBairathi, VBarish, KBassill, AJBehera, ABellwied, RBhasin, ABhati, AKBielcik, JBielcikova, JBland, LCBordyuzhin, IGBrandenburg, JDBrandin, AVBryslawskyj, JBunzarov, IButterworth, JCaines, HCalderón De La Barca Sánchez, MCebra, DChakaberia, IChaloupka, PChan, BKChang, FHChang, ZChankova-Bunzarova, NChatterjee, AChattopadhyay, SChen, JHChen, XCheng, JCherney, MChristie, WCrawford, HJCsanád, MDas, SDedovich, TGDeppner, IMDerevschikov, AADidenko, LDilks, CDong, XDrachenberg, JLDunlop, JCEdmonds, TElsey, NEngelage, JEppley, GEsha, REsumi, SEvdokimov, OEwigleben, JEyser, OFatemi, RFazio, SFederic, PFedorisin, JFeng, YFilip, PFinch, EFisyak, YFulek, LGagliardi, CAGalatyuk, TGeurts, FGibson, AGopal, KGrosnick, DGupta, AGuryn, WHamad, AIHamed, AHarris, JWHe, LHeppelmann, SHerrmann, NHolub, LHong, YHorvat, SHuang, BHuang, HZHuang, SLHuang, THuang, X
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10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134917Abstract
© 2019 The Author(s) J/ψ suppression has long been considered a sensitive signature of the formation of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this letter, we present the first measurement of inclusive J/ψ production at mid-rapidity through the dimuon decay channel in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV with the STAR experiment. These measurements became possible after the installation of the Muon Telescope Detector was completed in 2014. The J/ψ yields are measured in a wide transverse momentum (pT) range of 0.15 GeV/c to 12 GeV/c from central to peripheral collisions. They extend the kinematic reach of previous measurements at RHIC with improved precision. In the 0-10% most central collisions, the J/ψ yield is suppressed by a factor of approximately 3 for pT>5 GeV/c relative to that in p+p collisions scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions. The J/ψ nuclear modification factor displays little dependence on pT in all centrality bins. Model calculations can qualitatively describe the data, providing further evidence for the color-screening effect experienced by J/ψ mesons in the QGP.Citation to related work
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