Journal article

Publication year: 1999

Pages: 31-40

Journal: Physics Letters B

Volume number: 447

Issue number: 1-2

ISSN: 0370-2693

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01577-9

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
We study the production of c (c) over bar pairs in nuclear reactions at SPS energies within the covariant transport approach HSD. The production of c (c) over bar pairs is treated perturbatively employing experimental cross sections while the interactions of c (c) over bar pairs with baryons are included by conventional cascade-type two-body collisions. Adopting 6 mb for the c (c) over bar-baryon cross section the data on J/Psi suppression in p + A reactions are reproduced in line with calculations based on the Glauber model. Additionally the dissociation of the c (c) over bar pairs by strings is included in a purely geometrical way. We find good agreement with the experimental data from the NA38 and NA50 Collaborations with an estimate for the string radius of R-s approximate to 0.2-0.25 fm. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Harvard Citation style: Geiss, J., Greiner, C., Bratkovskaya, E., Cassing, W. and Mosel, U. (1999) Charmonium suppression with cc dissociation by strings, Physics Letters B, 447(1-2), pp. 31-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01577-9

APA Citation style: Geiss, J., Greiner, C., Bratkovskaya, E., Cassing, W., & Mosel, U. (1999). Charmonium suppression with cc dissociation by strings. Physics Letters B. 447(1-2), 31-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01577-9