J/Ψ suppression in heavy ion collisions and the QCD phase transition
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چکیده
We suggest that the new regime of J/ψ suppression in Pb-Pb collisions found by the NA50 experiment at CERN is the result of nontrivial space-time evolution due to specific behavior of the Equation of State (EOS) near the QCD phase transition. We also study another suppression channel, the conversion of J/ψ into ηc during the late cool hadronic stage, and find it rather inefficient.
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