A new measurement of J/psi suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 GeV per nucleon
- Alessandro B
- Alexa C
- Arnaldi R
- Atayan M
- Beole S
- Boldea V
- Bordalo P
- Borges G
- Castanier C
- Castor J
- Chaurand B
- Cheynis B
- Chiavassa E
- Cicalo C
- Comets MP
- Constantinescu S
- De Falco A
- De Marco N
- Dellacasa G
- Devaux A
- Dita S
- Drapier O
- Fargeix J
- Force P
- Gallio M
- Gerschel C
- Giubellino P
- Golubeva MB
- Gonin M
- Grigoryan A
- Grigoryan S
- Guber FF
- Guichard A
- Gulkanyan H
- Idzik M
- Jouan D
- Karavicheva TL
- Kluberg L
- Kurepin AB
- Le Bornec Y
- Lourenco C
- Mac Cormick M
- Macciotta P
- Marzari Chiesa A
- Masera M
- Masoni A
- Monteno M
- Musso A
- Petiau P
- Piccotti A
- Pizzi JR
- Prino F
- Puddu G
- Quintans C
- Ramos S
- Riccati L
- Romana A
- Santos H
- Saturnini P
- Scomparin E
- Serci S
- Shahoyan R
- Sigaudo F
- Sonderegger P
- Tarrago X
- Topilskaya NS
- Usai GL
- Vercellin E
- Villatte L
- Willis N
- Wu T.
- CORTESE, Pietro
- RAMELLO, Luciano
- SITTA, Mario
DOIAbstract
We present a new measurement of J/psi production in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon, from the data sample collected in year 2000 by the NA50 Collaboration, under improved experimental conditions with respect to previous years. With the target system placed in vacuum, the setup was better adapted to study, in particular, the most peripheral nuclear collisions with unprecedented accuracy. The analysis of this data sample shows that the (J/psi) / Drell-Yan cross-sections ratio measured in the most peripheral Pb-Pb interactions is in good agreement with the nuclear absorption pattern extrapolated from the studies of proton-nucleus collisions. Furthermore, this new measurement confirms our previous observation that the (J/psi) / Drell-Yan cr...
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