Gluon saturation effects on production in heavy ion collisions

✍ Scribed by Kirill Tuchin

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 177 KB
• Volume: 830
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.09.025

✦ Synopsis

We discuss a novel mechanism for J/ψ production in nuclear collisions arising due to the high density of gluons. We demonstrate that gluon saturation in the colliding nuclei is a dominant source of J/ψ suppression and can explain its experimentally observed rapidity and centrality dependence.