Calibrating the In-Medium Behavior of Quarkonia

Quarkonium production has been considered as a tool to study the medium formed in high-energy nuclear collisions, assuming that the formation of a hot and dense environment modifies the production pattern observed in elementary collisions. The basic features measured there are the relative fractions...

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Published in:Advances in high energy physics 2013-01, Vol.2013 (2013), p.1-6
Main Author: Satz, Helmut
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Calibration
Collisions
Energy (nuclear)
Flavours
Quarks
Studies
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Summary:Quarkonium production has been considered as a tool to study the medium formed in high-energy nuclear collisions, assuming that the formation of a hot and dense environment modifies the production pattern observed in elementary collisions. The basic features measured there are the relative fractions of hidden to open heavy flavor and the relative fractions of the different hidden heavy flavor states. Hence the essential question is if and how these quantities are modified in nuclear collisions. We show how the relevant data must be calibrated; that is, what reference has to be used, in order to determine this in a model-independent way.
ISSN:1687-7357
1687-7365
DOI:10.1155/2013/242918