PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 281 - The 26th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC2016) - Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter – Tuesday 13
Excess Of J/Ψ Yield At Very Low P In Au+Au Collisions measured by the STAR experiment
W. Zha
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Pre-published on: May 04, 2017
Published on: May 09, 2017
Abstract
J/$\psi$ suppression in heavy-ion collisions due to color screening of quark and antiquark potential in the deconfined medium has been proposed as a signature of the QGP formation. Other mechanisms, such as the cold nuclear matter effect and charm quark recombination, are likely to contribute to the observed modification of J/$\psi$ production in heavy-ion collisions. Recently, a significant excess of J/$\psi$ yield at very low transverse momentum ($p_{T}$) ($<$ 0.3 GeV/c) in peripheral hadronic Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$= 2.76 TeV at forward-rapidity has been observed by the ALICE collaboration, which can not be explained within the scenarios mentioned above. The excess observed may originate from the coherent photoproduction of J/$\psi$, which would be very challenging for the existing coherent photoproduction models. Measurements of J/$\psi$ production at very low $p_{T}$ in different collision energies, collision systems, and centralities can shed new lights on the origin of the excess.
In this article, we report the STAR measurements of J/$\psi$ production at very low $p_{T}$ in hadronic Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV and U+U collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 193 GeV at mid-rapidity. Centrality dependence of J/$\psi$ yields and nuclear modification factors at very low $p_{T}$ are presented.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.281.0332
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