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Journal Articles Physical Review Letters Year : 2007

J/$\psi$ production in Indium-Indium collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon

R. Arnaldi
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K. Banicz
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C. Cicalò
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A. Colla
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P. Cortese
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S. Damjanovic
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A. David
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A. de Falco
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H. En'Yo
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A. Ferretti
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M. Floris
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A. Förster
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N. Guettet
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H. Gulkanyan
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J.M. Heuser
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M. Keil
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C. Lourenço
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J. Lozano
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P. Martins
A. Masoni
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A. Neves
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H. Ohnishi
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C. Oppedisano
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P. Parracho
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Philippe Pillot
T. Poghosyan
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G. Puddu
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E. Radermacher
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P. Ramalhete
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P. Rosinsky
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E. Scomparin
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J. Seixas
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S. Serci
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R. Shahoyan
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P. Sonderegger
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H.J. Specht
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G. Usai
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R. Veenhof
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H. Wöhri
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Abstract

The NA60 experiment studies muon pair production at the CERN SPS. In this letter we report on a precision measurement of J/psi in In-In collisions. We have studied the J/psi 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.

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in2p3-00176311 , version 1 (03-10-2007)

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R. Arnaldi, K. Banicz, B. Chaurand, C. Cicalò, A. Colla, et al.. J/$\psi$ production in Indium-Indium collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon. Physical Review Letters, 2007, 99, pp.132302. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.132302⟩. ⟨in2p3-00176311⟩
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