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Non-perturbative Quarkonium Dissociation in Hadronic Matter

D. Kharzeev, L. McLerran, H. Satz

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9504338

Abstract

We calculate the dissociation rates of quarkonium ground states by tunnelling and direct thermal activation to the continuum. For hadronic matter at temperatures T ≤ 0.2 GeV, neither of these mechanisms leads to a sufficiently large dissociation to explain the experimentally observed suppression of charmonium. Dissociation by sequential excitation to excited energy levels, although OZI-forbidden, requires further analysis.

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