Cold and Hot Nuclear Matter Effects on Charmonium Production in p+Pb Collisions at LHC Energy

Abstract

We study cold and hot nuclear matter effects on charmonium production in p+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\text{NN}}=5.02$ TeV in a transport approach. At the forward rapidity, the cold medium effect on all the $c\bar c$ states and the hot medium effect on the excited $c\bar c$ states only can explain well the $J/\psi$ and $\psi'$ yield and transverse momentum distribution measured by the ALICE collaboration, and we predict a significantly larger $\psi'$ $p_\text{T}$ broadening in comparison with $J/\psi$. However, we can not reproduce the $J/\psi$ and $\psi'$ data at the backward rapidity with reasonable cold and hot medium effects.