Heavy Quarkonium Production at RHIC
Abstract
At RHIC, the initial production of heavy quarks will for the first time yield multiple cbarc pairs in each central event. If a region of deconfined quarks and gluons is subsequently formed, a new mechanism for the formation of heavy quarkonium bound states will be activated. This will result from the mobility of heavy quarks in the deconfined region, such that bound states can be formed from a quark and an antiquark which were originally produced in separate incoherent interactions. Model estimates of this effect for J/ψ production indicate that enhancements of an order of magnitude or more are to be expected.
- Publication:
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APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 2000
- Bibcode:
- 2000APS..DNP.KC012T