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Re-assessing the anomalous J/psi-suppression in the CERN NA50 data

Rajiv V. Gavai

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9807554

Abstract

A systematic analysis of the L-dependence of the J/psi-suppression in the data of the CERN NA38 and NA50 experiments shows that the anomalous suppression in the 1995 Pb-Pb data is at best a 4σ effect at any of the L-values for the Pb-Pb data, where L is the geometrical mean path length of the J/psi in the colliding nuclei. Possible implications for the 1996 data are discussed.

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