Quarkonia production in pp, p(d)A and AA Collisions

✍ Scribed by M.J. Leitch

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 832 KB
• Volume: 782
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.10.035

✦ Synopsis

Quarkonia (J/ , ', ) production provides a sensitive probe of gluon distributions and their modification in nuclei; and is a leading probe of the hotdense (deconfined) matter created in high-energy collisions of heavy ions. I will discuss our current understanding of the modification of gluon distributions in nuclei and other cold-nuclear-matter effects in the context of recent p-p and p(d)-A quarkonia measurements. Then I will review the latest results for nucleusnucleus collisions from RHIC, and together with the baseline results from d-A and p-p collisions, discuss several alternative explanations for the observed suppressions and future prospects for distinguishing these different pictures.