J/Psi Production in Au-Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

dc.creatorAdler, S. S.
dc.date2003-05-27
dc.date2003-09-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:04:04Z
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dc.descriptionFirst results on charm quarkonia production in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are presented. The yield of J/Psi's measured in the PHENIX experiment via electron-positron decay pairs at mid-rapidity for Au-Au reactions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV are analyzed as a function of collision centrality. For this analysis we have studied 49.3 million minimum bias Au-Au reactions. We present the J/Psi invariant yield dN/dy for peripheral and mid-central reactions. For the most central collisions where we observe no signal above background, we quote 90% confidence level upper limits. We compare these results with our J/Psi measurement from proton-proton reactions at the same energy. We find that our measurements are not consistent with models that predict strong enhancement relative to binary collision scaling.
dc.description325 authors, 11 pages text, 6 figures, 4 tables, RevTeX 4. Accepted for publication as a regular article in Physical Review C. This version has minor changes to respond to referee suggestions. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures for this and previous PHENIX publications are publicly available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.html
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0305030
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0305030
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.C69:014901,2004
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevC.69.014901
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/208005
dc.subjectNuclear Experiment
dc.titleJ/Psi Production in Au-Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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