Suppression ofJ/ψandψ′production in high-energy Pb on Pb collisions
- 1 May 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review C
- Vol. 55 (5) , 2621-2624
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.55.2621
Abstract
The anomalous suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 GeV observed recently by NA50 can be explained as due to the transition to a phase of strong absorption, which sets in when the local energy density exceeds about 3.4 GeV/fm.
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