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Evidence for deconfinement of quarks and gluons from the J/ψ suppression pattern measured in Pb-Pb collisions at the CERN-SPS

  • M. C. Abreu
  • , B. Alessandro
  • , C. Alexa
  • , R. Arnaldi
  • , M. Atayan
  • , C. Baglin
  • , A. Baldit
  • , M. Bedjidian
  • , S. Beolè
  • , V. Boldea
  • , P. Bordalo
  • , A. Bussière
  • , L. Capelli
  • , L. Casagrande
  • , J. Castor
  • , T. Chambon
  • , B. Chaurand
  • , I. Chevrot
  • , B. Cheynis
  • , E. Chiavassa
  • C. Cicalò, M. P. Comets, N. Constans, S. Constantinescu, J. Cruz, A. De Falco, G. Dellacasa, N. De Marco, A. Devaux, S. Dita, O. Drapier, L. Ducroux, B. Espagnon, J. Fargeix, P. Force, M. Gallio, Y. K. Gavrilov, C. Gerschel, P. Giubellino, M. B. Golubeva, M. Gonin, A. A. Grigorian, J. Y. Grossiord, F. F. Guber, A. Guichard, H. Gulkanyan, R. Hakobyan, R. Haroutunian, M. Idzik, D. Jouan, T. L. Karavitcheva, L. Kluberg, A. B. Kurepin, Y. Le Bornec, C. Lourenço, M. Mac Cormick, P. Macciotta, A. Marzari-Chiesa, M. Masera, A. Masoni, S. Mehrabyan, M. Monteno, S. Mourgues, A. Musso, P. Petiau, A. Piccotti, J. R. Pizzi, F. Prino, G. Puddu, C. Quintans, L. Ramello, S. Ramos, P. Rato-Mendes, L. Riccati, A. Romana, I. Ropotar, P. Saturnini, E. Scomparin, S. Serci, R. Shahoyan, S. Silva, M. Sitta, C. Soave, P. Sonderegger, X. Tarrago, N. S. Topilskaya, G. L. Usai, E. Vercellin, L. Villatte, N. Willis
  • LIP - Lisboa
  • University of Turin
  • IFA
  • Yerevan Physics Institute
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • Université Blaise Pascal
  • IGFL, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1
  • Universitá di Cagliari
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Laboratory of Molecular Pathology
  • Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research

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Résumé

The analysis of the data collected by the NA50 experiment in 1998, reported in this paper, extends and clarifies the pattern of the previously observed J/ψ anomalous suppression. This new measurement, besides providing a deeper understanding of the previous observations, reveals a steady significative decrease in the J/ψ production rate up to the most central Pb-Pb collisions. It clearly rules out the presently available conventional (hadronic) models of J/ψ suppression, which unanimously predict a saturation of the J/ψ rate for central Pb-Pb collisions. On the contrary and together with the sharp onset of the anomalous suppression previously reported, the new observation leads to a global production rate pattern which finds its natural explanation in the framework of the formation of a deconfined state of quarks and gluons. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V.

langue originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)28-36
Nombre de pages9
journalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume477
Numéro de publication1-3
Les DOIs
étatPublié - 23 mars 2000

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