Abstract
The NA60 experiment studies muon pair production at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. In this Letter we report on a precision measurement of J/ψ in In-In collisions. We have studied the J/ψ centrality distribution, and we have compared it with the one expected if absorption in cold nuclear matter were the only active suppression mechanism. For collisions involving more than ∼80 participant nucleons, we find that an extra suppression is present. This result is in qualitative agreement with previous Pb-Pb measurements by the NA50 experiment, but no theoretical explanation is presently able to coherently describe both results.
Lingua originale | Inglese |
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Numero di articolo | 132302 |
Rivista | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 99 |
Numero di pubblicazione | 13 |
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Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 26 set 2007 |
Pubblicato esternamente | Sì |