Charmonium Suppression by Comover Scattering in Pb+Pb Collisions
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چکیده
The first reports of ψ and ψ production from experiment NA50 at the CERN SPS are compared to predictions based on a hadronic model of charmonium suppression. Data on centrality dependence and total cross sections are in good accord with these predictions. This manuscript has been authored under contract number DE-AC02-76CH00016 with the U. S. Department of Energy. Accordingly, the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes. This work was supported in part by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Division of Nuclear Physics of the Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics of the U. S. Department of Energy under Contract Number DE-AC03-76SF0098.
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