Quarkonium Formation from Uncorrelated Quark-Antiquark Pairs
Abstract
Description
The goal of this section is to assess the possibility that quarkonium production rates may be enhanced in nucleus-nucleus interactions at the LHC relative to that predicted by extrapolation of processes thought to be dominant at lower energy. This enhancement could follow from the effects of incoherent recombination mechanisms involving uncorrelated pairs of heavy quarks and antiquarks which result from multiple pair production. Two different approaches have been considered: statistical hadronization and kinetic formation. Updated predictions relevant to Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC are given.
To be published in "Hard Probes in Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC, CERN report
To be published in "Hard Probes in Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC, CERN report