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The Role of Produced Hadrons in J/psi Suppression

Cheuk-Yin Wong, T. Barnes, E. S. Swanson, Horace W. Crater

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0209017

Abstract

Hadrons produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions can suppress the production of J/psi and other charmonium states by charmonium spontaneous dissociation as the hot hadronic environment alters the interaction between the charm quark and charm antiquark. Furthermore, hadrons can thermalize a charmonium to excite it to higher charmonium states which subsequently dissociate spontaneously. They can also collide with a charmonium to lead to its prompt dissociation into an open charm pair.

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