Suppression of Υ{hooked} production in d + Au and Au + Au collisions at sNN=200GeV
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Adamczyk, LAdkins, JK
Agakishiev, G
Aggarwal, MM
Ahammed, Z
Alekseev, I
Alford, J
Anson, CD
Aparin, A
Arkhipkin, D
Aschenauer, EC
Averichev, GS
Balewski, J
Banerjee, A
Barnovska, Z
Beavis, DR
Bellwied, R
Bhasin, A
Bhati, AK
Bhattarai, P
Bichsel, H
Bielcik, J
Bielcikova, J
Bland, LC
Bordyuzhin, IG
Borowski, W
Bouchet, J
Brandin, AV
Brovko, SG
Bültmann, S
Bunzarov, I
Burton, TP
Butterworth, J
Caines, H
Calderon de la Barca Sanchez, M
Cebra, D
Cendejas, R
Cervantes, MC
Chaloupka, P
Chang, Z
Chattopadhyay, S
Chen, HF
Chen, JH
Chen, L
Cheng, J
Cherney, M
Chikanian, A
Christie, W
Chwastowski, J
Codrington, MJM
Corliss, R
Cramer, JG
Crawford, HJ
Cui, X
Das, S
Davila Leyva, A
De Silva, LC
Debbe, RR
Dedovich, TG
Deng, J
Derevschikov, AA
Derradi De Souza, R
Dhamija, S
Di Ruzza, B
Didenko, L
Dilks, C
Ding, F
Djawotho, P
Dong, X
Drachenberg, JL
Draper, JE
Du, CM
Dunkelberger, LE
Dunlop, JC
Efimov, LG
Engelage, J
Engle, KS
Eppley, G
Eun, L
Evdokimov, O
Fatemi, R
Fazio, S
Fedorisin, J
Filip, P
Finch, E
Fisyak, Y
Flores, CE
Gagliardi, CA
Gangadharan, DR
Garand, D
Geurts, F
Gibson, A
Girard, M
Gliske, S
Grosnick, D
Guo, Y
Gupta, A
Gupta, S
Guryn, W
Haag, B
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10.1016/j.physletb.2014.06.028Abstract
We report measurements of Υ{hooked} meson production in p + p, d + Au, and Au + Au collisions using the STAR detector at RHIC. We compare the Υ{hooked} yield to the measured cross section in p + p collisions in order to quantify any modifications of the yield in cold nuclear matter using d + Au data and in hot nuclear matter using Au + Au data separated into three centrality classes. Our p + p measurement is based on three times the statistics of our previous result. We obtain a nuclear modification factor for Υ{hooked}(1S + 2S + 3S) in the rapidity range |y| < 1 in d + Au collisions of R dAu = 0.79 ± 0.24(stat.) ± 0.03(syst.) ± 0.10(p + psyst.). A comparison with models including shadowing and initial state parton energy loss indicates the presence of additional cold-nuclear matter suppression. Similarly, in the top 10% most-central Au + Au collisions, we measure a nuclear modification factor of R A A = 0.49 ± 0.1(stat.) ± 0.02(syst.) ± 0.06(p + p syst.), which is a larger suppression factor than that seen in cold nuclear matter. Our results are consistent with complete suppression of excited-state Υ{hooked} mesons in Au + Au collisions. The additional suppression in Au + Au is consistent with the level expected in model calculations that include the presence of a hot, deconfined Quark-Gluon Plasma. However, understanding the suppression seen in d + Au is still needed before any definitive statements about the nature of the suppression in Au + Au can be made. © 2014.Citation to related work
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