2012

Heavy-quarkonium suppression in p-A collisions from parton energy loss in cold QCD matter

Arleo, François, Peigné, Stéphane

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The effects of parton energy loss in cold nuclear matter on heavy-quarkonium suppression in p-A collisions are studied.

It is shown from first principles that at large quarkonium energy E and small production angle in the nucleus rest frame, the medium-induced energy loss scales as E.
Using this result, a phenomenological model depending on a single free parameter is able to reproduce J/psi and Upsilon suppression data in a broad xF-range and at various center-of-mass energies.
These results strongly support energy loss as the dominant effect in heavy-quarkonium suppression in p-A collisions.

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