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Color degrees of freedom in nuclear collisions and charmonium suppression

2000/12/01 by J. Hüfner, Jörg Hüfner, Boris Kopeliovich +5
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0012010

6 pages Latex, 1 postscript figure, uses moriond.sty (included), talk at the XXXVth Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and Hadronic Interactions, 18 -- 25 March 2000, Les Arcs, France

arxiv created 2000/12/01 · openalex publication_date 2000/12/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In high energy nuclear collisions, the Glauber model is commonly used to evaluate J/ψ suppression due to inelastic interaction with colorless bound nucleons. This requires an effective value for the J/ψ-nucleon absorption cross section which is larger than theoretically expected. On the other hand, multiple nucleon-nucleon collisions mediated by color exchange interactions, excite their color degrees of freedom. We investigate the importance of this effect and conclude that the related corrections are important to explain the effective value extrapolated from experiment.

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