Quarkonium Production and Color Deconfinement in Nuclear Collisions

Preprint

5 September 1996

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9609260

Abstract

The suppression of quarkonium production in nucleus-nucleus collisions was originally proposed as a signal of colour deconfinement. Strong ``anomalous" J/\psi suppression in Pb-Pb collisions has been reported at this Conference by the NA50 Collaboration. Is this suppression really anomalous? Can we conclude that the quark-gluon plasma is already discovered? What has to be done next? I address these questions basing on the current theoretical understanding of quarkonium production and new precise experimental information.

Keywords

QUARKONIUM PRODUCTION
COLOR DECONFINEMENT
NUCLEAR COLLISIONS
NUCLEUS NUCLEUS
DECONFINEMENT
QUARK GLUON
PSI

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Version 1, 1996-09-05, ArXiv
Published version: Nuclear Physics A, 610, 418.

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