Collaboration, ALICE;
(2012)
J/psi suppression at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV.
Physical Review Letters
, 109
(7)
, Article 072301. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.072301.
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Abstract
The ALICE experiment has measured the inclusive J/psi production in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV down to zero transverse momentum in the rapidity range 2.5 < y < 4. A suppression of the inclusive J/psi yield in Pb-Pb is observed with respect to the one measured in pp collisions scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions. The nuclear modification factor, integrated over the 0%-80% most central collisions, is 0.545+/-0.032(stat)+/-0.083(syst) and does not exhibit a significant dependence on the collision centrality. These features appear significantly different from measurements at lower collision energies. Models including J/psi production from charm quarks in a deconfined partonic phase can describe our data.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | J/psi suppression at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.072301 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.072301 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2012 CERN, for the ALICE Collaboration |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1374552 |
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