Comment to 'The Dependence of the anomalous J / psi suppression on the number of participant nucleons'
- The recently published experimental dependence of the J/psi suppression pattern in Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN SPS on the energy of zero degree calorimeter EZDC are analyzed. It is found that the data obtained within the minimum bias analysis (using theoretical Drell-Yan ) are at variance with the previously published experimental dependence of the same quantity on the transversal energy of neutral hadrons ET . The discrepancy is related to the moderate centrality region: 100 << Np << 200 (Np is the number of nucleon participants). This could result from systematic experimental errors in the minimum bias sample. A possible source of the errors may be contamination of the minimum bias sample by o -target interactions. The data obtained within the standard analysis (using measured Drell-Yan multiplicity) are found to be much less sensitive to the contamination.
Author: | Andriy P. KostyukORCiD, Horst StöckerORCiDGND, Walter GreinerGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-21194 |
Document Type: | Preprint |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2005/11/15 |
Year of first Publication: | 2002 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2005/11/15 |
Tag: | Drell-Yan; Pb+Pb collisions |
Source: | [nucl-ex/0207018] (Jul 2002) 9p. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 185779050 |
Institutes: | Physik / Physik |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
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