Open Access

Jaroslav Adam, Leszek Adamczyk, Joseph R. Adams, J. Kevin Adkins, Geydar Agakishiev, Madan Mohan Aggarwal, Zubayer Ahammed, Igor G. Alekseev, Derek M. Anderson, Ryo Aoyama, Alexey Aparin, Dmitry A. Arkhipkin, Elke Caroline Aschenauer, Muhammad Usman Ashraf, Fareha Atetalla, Anjali Attri, Georgy S. Averichev, Vipul Bairathi, Kenneth Barish, Aaron J. Bassill, Arabinda Behera, Rene Bellwied, Anju Bhasin, Ashok Kumar Bhati, Jaroslav Bielčík, Jana Bielčíková, Leslie C. Bland, Igor G. Bordyuzhin, James D. Brandenburg, Andrei V. Brandin, Jason Bryslawskyj, Ivan Bunzarov, Joseph Butterworth, Helen Louise Caines, Manuel Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Daniel A. Cebra, Irakli Chakaberia, Petr Chaloupka, Brian Chan, Feng-Han Chang, Zilong Chang, Nedialka Chankova-Bunzarova, Arghya Chatterjee, Subhasis Chattopadhyay, Jinhui Chen, Xiaolong Chen, Jianping Cheng, Michael Gerard Cherney, William Christie, Henry J. Crawford, Máté Csanád, Supriya Das, Tatiana G. Dedovič, Ingo Martin Deppner, Anatoly A. Derevschikov, Lidia Didenko, Christopher Dilks, Xin Dong, James Lucus Drachenberg, James C. Dunlop, Terrence Edmonds, Nicholas Elsey, Jon M. Engelage, Geary Wareham Eppley, Roli Esha, ShinIchi Esumi, Olga Y. Evdokimov, Justin Ewigleben, Kjeld Oleg Eyser, Renee H. Fatemi, Salvatore Fazio, Pavol Federič, Jan Fedorišin, Yicheng Feng, Peter Filip, Evan Finch, Yuri V. Fisyak, Łukasz Fulek, Carl A. Gagliardi, Tetyana Galatyuk, Frank Geurts, Adam Gibson, Krishan Gopal, David P. Grosnick, Anik Gupta, Włodzimierz Guryn, Ayman Hamad, Ahmed M. Hamed, John W. Harris, Liang He, Samuel Heppelmann, Steven Francis Heppelmann, Norbert Herrmann, Lukáš Holub, Yifan Hong, Stephen P. Horvat, Bingchu Huang, Huan Zhong Huang, Shengli Huang, Te-Chuan Huang, Xinjie Huang, Thomas J. Humanic, Peng Huo, George J. Igo, William W. Jacobs, Chitrasen Jena, Alexander Jentsch, Yuanjing Ji, Jiangyong Jia, Kun Jiang, Sedigheh Jowzaee, Xinyue Ju, Eleanor G. Judd, Sonia Kabana, Skipper Kagamaster, Dmitry Kalinkin, Kejun Kang, David Kapukchyan, Kolja Kauder, Hongwei Ke, Declan Keane, Armen Kechechyan, Matthew Kelsey, Yevheniia V. Khyzhniak, Daniel P. Kikoła, Chong Kim, Todd Adler Kinghorn, Ivan Kisel, Adam Ryszard Kisiel, Michal Kocan, L. M. Kočenda, Leszek Krzysztof Kosarzewski, Lukáš Kramárik, Peter Kravtsov, Keith William Krueger, Nalinda Kulathunga Mudiyanselage, Lokesh Kumar, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Joseph H. Kwasizur, Roy Alphanso Lacey, Jeffery M. Landgraf, Jerome Lauret, Alexei Lebedev, Richard Lednicky, Jeong-Hun Lee, Cheng Li, Wei Li, Wei Li, Xin Li, Yuanjing Li, Yue Liang, Robert Licenik, Ting Lin, Andrzej Lipiec, Michael A. Lisa, Feng Liu, Huanzhao Liu, Peifeng Liu, Peng Liu, Tong Liu, Xiaoyu Liu, Y. Liu, Zhen Liu, Tonko A. Ljubicic, William Joseph Llope, Michael Lomnitz, Ronald S. Longacre, Siwei Luo, Xiaofeng Luo, Guo-Liang Ma, Long Ma, Rongrong Ma, Yu-Gang Ma, Niseem Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Richard Daniel Majka, Dukhishyam Mallick, Spyridon Margetis, Christina Markert, Howard S. Matis, Oliver Matonoha, Joel Anthony Mazer, Kathryn Meehan, Jincheng Mei, Nikolai G. Minaev, Saskia Mioduszewski, Debadeepti Mishra, Bedangadas Mohanty, Mriganka Mouli Mondal, Isaac A. Mooney, Zuzana Moravcova, Dmitry A. Morozov, Md. Nasim, Kishora Nayak, John M. Nelson, Daniel B. Nemes, Maowu Nie, Grigory A. Nigmatkulov, Takafumi Niida, Larisa V. Nogach, Toshihiro Nonaka, Grazyna Janina Odyniec, Akio Ogawa, Kunsu Oh, Saehanseul Oh, Vitaly A. Okorokov, Brian S. Page, Robert Pak, Yuri Panebratsev, Bogdan Pawlik, Diana Pawłowska, Hua Pei, Chris Perkins, Roland Laszlo Pintér, Jan Marian Pluta, Jeffrey Brent Porter, Matthew Posik, Navneet Kumar Pruthi, Mariusz Przybycien, Jörn H. Putschke, Amilkar Quintero, Sooraj Krishnan Radhakrishnan, Suvarna Ramachandran, Robert L. Ray, Rosi Jan Reed, Hans Georg Ritter, Jabus B. Roberts, Oleg V. Rogačevskij, Juan L. Romero, Lijuan Ruan, Jan Rusnak, Olga Rusnakova, Nihar Ranjan Sahoo, Pradip Kumar Sahu, Sevil Salur, Jack H. Sandweiss, Joachim Schambach, William B. Schmidke, Norbert Schmitz, Benjamin R. Schweid, Florian Seck, Janet Elizabeth Seger, Maria Sergeeva, Richard Seto, Peter Seyboth, Neha Shah, Ehtiram Shahaliev, Prashanth V. Shanmuganathan, Ming Shao, Fuwang Shen, Wenqing Shen, Shusu Shi, Qiye Shou, Ernst P. Sichtermann, Sebastian Siejka, Rafał Sikora, Miroslav Šimko, Jagbir Singh, Subhash Singha, Dmitri V. Smirnov, Nikolai Smirnov, William Solyst, Paul Richard Sorensen, Harold. M. Spinka, Brijesh Kumar Srivastava, T. D. Shirvel Stanislaus, Maria Stefaniak, David J. Stewart, Michail Nikolaevič Strichanov, Blair Stringfellow, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo Suaide, Tetsuro Sugiura, Michal Šumbera, Branden Summa, Xiangming Sun, Yongjie Sun, Yuliang Sun, Bernd Surrow, Dmitry N. Svirida, Paweł Szymański, Aihong Tang, Zebo Tang, Arkadiy Taranenko, Terence J. Tarnowsky, James H. Thomas, Anthony Robert Timmins, David Tlusty, Takahito Todoroki, Mikhail V. Tokarev, Catherine A. Tomkiel, Stephen Trentalange, Robert E. Tribble, Prithwish Tribedy, Srikanta Kumar Tripathy, Oleg D. Tsai, Biao Tu, Zhoudunming Tu, Thomas Ullrich, David G. Underwood, Isaac Upsal, Gene Van Buren, Jan Vanek, Alexander Nikolaevich Vasiliev, Iouri Vassiliev, Flemming Videbæk, Stanislav Vokal, Sergei Voloshin, Fuqiang Wang, Gang Wang, Pengfei Wang, Yi Wang, Yaping Wang, Jason C. Webb, Liwen Wen, Gary D. Westfall, Howard Wieman, Scott W. Wissink, Richard Witt, Yang Wu, Zhigang Xiao, Guannan Xie, Wei Xie, Haojie Xu, Nu Xu, Qinghua Xu, Yi-Fei Xu, Zhangbu Xu, Chi Yang, Qian Yang, Shuai Yang, Yi Yang, Zhenzhen Yang, Zaochen Ye, Zhenyu Ye, Li Yi, Kin Yip, In-Kwon Yoo, Hanna Paulina Zbroszczyk, Wangmei Zha, Dingwei Zhang, Liang Zhang, Shenghui Zhang, Song Zhang, Xiaoping Zhang, Yifei Zhang, Zhengqiao Zhang, Jie Zhao, Chen Zhong, Chensheng Zhou, Xianglei Zhu, Zhanwen Zhu, Marian Zurek, Maksym Zyzak

• J/ψ suppression has long been considered a sensitive signature of the formation of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this letter, we present the first measurement of inclusive J/ψ production at mid-rapidity through the dimuon decay channel in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV with the STAR experiment. These measurements became possible after the installation of the Muon Telescope Detector was completed in 2014. The J/ψ yields are measured in a wide transverse momentum (pT) range of 0.15 GeV/c to 12 GeV/c from central to peripheral collisions. They extend the kinematic reach of previous measurements at RHIC with improved precision. In the 0-10% most central collisions, the J/ψ yield is suppressed by a factor of approximately 3 for pT > 5 GeV/c relative to that in p + p collisions scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions. The J/ψ nuclear modification factor displays little dependence on pT in all centrality bins. Model calculations can qualitatively describe the data, providing further evidence for the color-screening effect experienced by J/ψ mesons in the QGP.