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J/ψsuppression at forward rapidity in Au+Au collisions atsNN=39and 62.4 GeV

C. L. WoodyA. BerdnikovS. DairakuK. S. SimMaya Hachiya ShimomuraR. S. HollisA. V. KazantsevY. I. MakdisiA. SenA. DeshpandeCharles MaguireV. S. PantuevM. SanoM. ViriusE. T. AtomssaR. YangS. ChoiK. V. DharmawardaneKiyoshi TanidaS. TanejaE. KistenevL. TomášekC. H. ChenM. J. TannenbaumT. KempelA. GarishviliI. V. SourikovaA. KissS. KanetiH. ToriiY. TanakaE. MannelM. JavaniH. J. MoonA. ManionBum-hoon LeeJ. SunI. RavinovichHenner BueschingY. NakamiyaY. TsuchimotoY. WatanabeI. YounusS. ButsykL. PatelB. AzmounK. OkadaM. KurosawaE. TennantM. BaiM. RosatiH. PeiY. IkedaK. KaratsuH. IinumaDmitry BlauX. GongY. FukaoM. WysockiH. J. KimL. A. Linden LevyAtsushi TakaharaA. KrálE. C. AschenauerD. E. FieldsY. HoriAnne Marie SicklesB. BannierM. J. LeitchK. GaineyB. V. JacakR. AkimotoT. C. AwesKyoichiro OzawaB. MeredithK. O. EyserAlice MignereyB. SahlmuellerT. HesterD. KotchetkovK. A. DreesT. MurakamiAaron AngeramiY. L. YamaguchiL. D'orazioS. MiyasakaZhiying YouM. MccumberC. PinkenburgY. J. KimHideki HamagakiK. AokiE. J. DesmondG. DavidX. JiangJ. KlatskyH. W. Van HeckeJ. T. MitchellR. SeidlVladislav MankoMarisilvia DonadelliV. BumazhnovW. A. ZajcJohn HillJ. HanksG. RocheSung Keun ParkM. OuchidaTakao SakaguchiM. FingerY. J. KwonK. WatanabeM. SlunečkaE. M. TakaguiSenta GreeneToru SugitateA. EnokizonoN. GrauYosuke WatanabeK. ShojiP. KlineJ. H. KangM. LeitgabV. BaublisA. DenisovN. N. AjitanandB. LewisV. CiancioloJ. ImrekC. ValeP. W. StankusS. SawadaE. Vazquez-zambranoA. NederlofJ. S. HaggertyS. R. LeeA. D. FrawleyMotoi InabaJiangyong JiaJiangyong JiaY. GotoR. S. TowellB. FademE. O'brienJ. YingA. FranzTakahiro NakamuraD. McglincheyJan RakI. GarishviliS. BatheM. ChiuJongmin LeeC. A. OgilvieR. LaceyChristine Angela AidalaR. A. SoltzM. SarsourMate CsanadA. IordanovaAgneta OskarssonY. BerdnikovH. QuF. WeiM. StepanovMinghui LiuS. TarafdarR. Granier De CassagnacY. AkibaC. MckinneyKisung LeeT. K. HemmickA. DurumSergey FokinS. HuangM. Grosse PerdekampA. DattaH. AsanoS. NagamiyaJ. S. KangA. AdareM. NihashiM. KasaiEva HaslumMartin PurschkeVaclav VrbaVaclav VrbaKensuke HommaR. ReynoldsRyugo S. HayanoE. RichardsonM. E. ConnorsRui WeiD. KawallM. TomášekM. TomášekG. S. KyleD. KleinjanTaku GunjiK. I. HahnJames AlexanderB. BassalleckFrançois FleuretH. ThemannJ. M. DurhamYasuo MiakeKenneth Francis ReadKenneth Francis ReadA. TaketaniPrashant ShuklaR. P. PisaniY. RiabovKenta ShigakiI. E. YushmanovByung-sik HongA. BazilevskyT. IchiharaC. Y. ChiS. F. PateAlexandre LebedevPeter ChristiansenM. IssahJ. MurataY. S. LaiS. H. LeeA. S. NyaninKe. NakamuraL. GuoAlexei KhanzadeevD. M. LeeGerd Joachim KundeTakahiro FusayasuD. WinterS. BaumgartH. A. GustafssonD. Yu PeressounkoI. SheinS. MasumotoR. K. ChoudhuryVladimir SamsonovChristine NattrassRachid NouicerA. N. ZelenskiM. ProisslB. KomkovT. TodorokiE. StenlundS. D. RolnickM. S. DaugherityC. P. SinghK. S. JooS. MotschwillerK. SedgwickNorio SaitoTsutomu MibeJ. B. ChoiMihael MakekM. A. L. LeiteB. M. JohnsonS. WolinR. PakV. PapavassiliouAjit Kumar MohantyT. A. ShibataC. L. SilvaD. SilvermyrP. L. McgaugheyFilip KrizekS. H. LimR. J. PettiA. SterTamas Ferenc CsorgoN. ApadulaDipak Kumar MishraR. BelmontJ. S. KapustinskyS. YokkaichiViktor RiabovTomofumi NagaeV. BabintsevS. EdwardsJ. L. NagleA. VossenP. CasteraByoungchoo ParkD. IsenhowerO. DietzschA. TaranenkoJ. SziklaiS. EsumiA. DreesD. SharmaT. HoraguchiBrian ColeBrajesh K. SinghY. KomatsuT. V. MoukhanovaD. KotovC. GalJulia VelkovskaA. YanovichJason KaminM. SoumyaTomoya TsujiM. MendozaS. P. StollS. N. WhiteD. JouanZvi Hirsh CitronK. NakanoK. B. KimW. E. SondheimD. IvanischevK. BoyleI. TserruyaM. GoninA. SukhanovK. KuritaH. PereiraYu. EfremenkoV. SinghC. O. KimK. B. LeeY. MiyachiA. DionM. I. NagyL. DingD. RoachK. M. KijimaD. WatanabeA. GlennE. VznuzdaevK. N. BarishK. HashimotoEunja KimJen-chieh PengJ. E. FrantzS. P. SorensenBeomkyu KimX. BingO. ChvalaInkyu ParkM. VargyasM. L. BrooksXiong WangDong Jo KimJ. G. LajoieT. HachiyaB. LoveI. J. ChoiAlexander MilovI. NakagawaYoung-ki KimT. EngelmoreN. NovitzkyO. DrapierE. R. KinneyD. P. MorrisonS. CampbellB. H. KangH. Al-ta'aniTatsuya ChujoR. SetoX. HeY. AramakiRobert VertesiJ. KosterA. Veicht

subject

Nuclear physicsPhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsTransverse momentumTheoretical modelsRapidityInvariant (mathematics)Nuclear Experiment

description

We present measurements of the J/psi invariant yields in root s(NN) = 39 and 62.4 GeV Au + Au collisions at forward rapidity (1.2 < vertical bar y vertical bar < 2.2). Invariant yields are presented as a function of both collision centrality and transverse momentum. Nuclear modifications are obtained for central relative to peripheral Au + Au collisions (R-CP) and for various centrality selections in Au + Au relative to scaled p + p cross sections obtained from other measurements (R-AA). The observed suppression patterns at 39 and 62.4 GeV are quite similar to those previously measured at 200 GeV. This similar suppression presents a challenge to theoretical models that contain various competing mechanisms with different energy dependencies, some of which cause suppression and others enhancement. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.86.064901

https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.86.064901