Measurement of inclusive J/ψ suppression in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV through the dimuon channel at STAR

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Title: Measurement of inclusive J/ψ suppression in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV through the dimuon channel at STAR
Authors: J. Adam, L. Adamczyk, J.R. Adams, J.K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev, M.M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, D.M. Anderson, R. Aoyama, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E.C. Aschenauer, M.U. Ashraf, F. Atetalla, A. Attri, G.S. Averichev, V. Bairathi, K. Barish, A.J. Bassill, A. Behera, R. Bellwied, A. Bhasin, A.K. Bhati, J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, L.C. Bland, I.G. Bordyuzhin, J.D. Brandenburg, A.V. Brandin, J. Bryslawskyj, I. Bunzarov, J. Butterworth, H. Caines, M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, D. Cebra, I. Chakaberia, P. Chaloupka, B.K. Chan, F.-H. Chang, Z. Chang, N. Chankova-Bunzarova, A. Chatterjee, S. Chattopadhyay, J.H. Chen, X. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Cherney, W. Christie, H.J. Crawford, M. Csanád, S. Das, T.G. Dedovich, I.M. Deppner, A.A. Derevschikov, L. Didenko, C. Dilks, X. Dong, J.L. Drachenberg, J.C. Dunlop, T. Edmonds, N. Elsey, J. Engelage, G. Eppley, R. Esha, S. Esumi, O. Evdokimov, J. Ewigleben, O. Eyser, R. Fatemi, S. Fazio, P. Federic, J. Fedorisin, Y. Feng, P. Filip, E. Finch, Y. Fisyak, L. Fulek, C.A. Gagliardi, T. Galatyuk, F. Geurts, A. Gibson, K. Gopal, D. Grosnick, A. Gupta, W. Guryn, A.I. Hamad, A. Hamed, J.W. Harris, L. He, S. Heppelmann, N. Herrmann, L. Holub, Y. Hong, S. Horvat, B. Huang, H.Z. Huang, S.L. Huang, T. Huang, X. Huang, T.J. Humanic, P. Huo, G. Igo, W.W. Jacobs, C. Jena, A. Jentsch, Y. Ji, J. Jia, K. Jiang, S. Jowzaee, X. Ju, E.G. Judd, S. Kabana, S. Kagamaster, D. Kalinkin, K. Kang, D. Kapukchyan, K. Kauder, H.W. Ke, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, M. Kelsey, Y.V. Khyzhniak, D.P. Kikoła, C. Kim, T.A. Kinghorn, I. Kisel, A. Kisiel, M. Kocan, L. Kochenda, L.K. Kosarzewski, L. Kramarik, P. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, N. Kulathunga Mudiyanselage, L. Kumar, R. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, J.H. Kwasizur, R. Lacey, J.M. Landgraf, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, J.H. Lee, C. Li, W. Li, X. Li, Y. Li, Y. Liang, R. Licenik, T. Lin, A. Lipiec, M.A. Lisa, F. Liu, H. Liu, P. Liu, T. Liu, X. Liu, Y. Liu, Z. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W.J. Llope, M. Lomnitz, R.S. Longacre, S. Luo, X. Luo, G.L. Ma, L. Ma, R. Ma, Y.G. Ma, N. Magdy, R. Majka, D. Mallick, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H.S. Matis, O. Matonoha, J.A. Mazer, K. Meehan, J.C. Mei, N.G. Minaev, S. Mioduszewski, D. Mishra, B. Mohanty, M.M. Mondal, I. Mooney, Z. Moravcova, D.A. Morozov, Md. Nasim, K. Nayak, J.M. Nelson, D.B. Nemes, M. Nie, G. Nigmatkulov, T. Niida, L.V. Nogach, T. Nonaka, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, K. Oh, S. Oh, V.A. Okorokov, B.S. Page, R. Pak, Y. Panebratsev, B. Pawlik, D. Pawlowska, H. Pei, C. Perkins, R.L. Pintér, J. Pluta, J. Porter, M. Posik, N.K. Pruthi, M. Przybycien, J. Putschke, A. Quintero, S.K. Radhakrishnan, S. Ramachandran, R.L. Ray, R. Reed, H.G. Ritter, J.B. Roberts, O.V. Rogachevskiy, J.L. Romero, L. Ruan, J. Rusnak, O. Rusnakova, N.R. Sahoo, P.K. Sahu, S. Salur, J. Sandweiss, J. Schambach, W.B. Schmidke, N. Schmitz, B.R. Schweid, F. Seck, J. Seger, M. Sergeeva, R. Seto, P. Seyboth, N. Shah, E. Shahaliev, P.V. Shanmuganathan, M. Shao, F. Shen, W.Q. Shen, S.S. Shi, Q.Y. Shou, E.P. Sichtermann, S. Siejka, R. Sikora, M. Simko, J. Singh, S. Singha, D. Smirnov, N. Smirnov, W. Solyst, P. Sorensen, H.M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T.D.S. Stanislaus, M. Stefaniak, D.J. Stewart, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, A.A.P. Suaide, T. Sugiura, M. Sumbera, B. Summa, X.M. Sun, Y. Sun, B. Surrow, D.N. Svirida, P. Szymanski, A.H. Tang, Z. Tang, A. Taranenko, T. Tarnowsky, J.H. Thomas, A.R. Timmins, D. Tlusty, T. Todoroki, M. Tokarev, C.A. Tomkiel, S. Trentalange, R.E. Tribble, P. Tribedy, S.K. Tripathy, O.D. Tsai, B. Tu, Z. Tu, T. Ullrich, D.G. Underwood, I. Upsal, G. Van Buren, J. Vanek, A.N. Vasiliev, I. Vassiliev, F. Videbæk, S. Vokal, S.A. Voloshin, F. Wang, G. Wang, P. Wang, Y. Wang, J.C. Webb, L. Wen, G.D. Westfall, H. Wieman, S.W. Wissink, R. Witt, Y. Wu, Z.G. Xiao, G. Xie, W. Xie, H. Xu, N. Xu, Q.H. Xu, Y.F. Xu, Z. Xu, C. Yang, Q. Yang, S. Yang, Y. Yang, Z. Yang, Z. Ye, L. Yi, K. Yip, I.-K. Yoo, H. Zbroszczyk, W. Zha, D. Zhang, L. Zhang, S. Zhang, X.P. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Z. Zhang, J. Zhao, C. Zhong, C. Zhou, X. Zhu, Z. Zhu, M. Zurek, M. Zyzak
Source: Physics Letters B, Vol 797, Iss , Pp - (2019)
Publisher Information: Elsevier, 2019.
Publication Year: 2019
Collection: LCC:Physics
Subject Terms: Physics, QC1-999
More Details: 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. Keywords: Quark-gluon plasma, Color-screening, J/ψ suppression
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 0370-2693
Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319306392; https://doaj.org/toc/0370-2693
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134917
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/77f0ad0b9e614e9d8fd66450c62d57da
Accession Number: edsdoj.77f0ad0b9e614e9d8fd66450c62d57da
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ISSN:03702693
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134917
Published in:Physics Letters B
Language:English