Energy loss of charm quarks from J/ψ production incold nuclear matter
- Received Date:2014-01-24
- Accepted Date:2014-05-28
- Available Online:2014-12-05
Abstract:J/ψ suppression in p-A collisions is studied by considering the nuclear effects on parton distribution, energy loss of beam proton and the finial state energy loss of color octet cc. The leading-order computations for J/ψ production cross-section ratiosRW/Be(xF) are presented and compared with the selected E866 experimental data with the ccremaining colored on its entire path in the medium. It is shown that the combination of the different nuclear effects accounts quite well for the observed J/ψ suppression in the experimental data. It is found that the J/ψ suppression onRW/Be(xF) from the initial state nuclear effects is more important than that induced by the energy loss of color octet ccin the largexFregion. Whether the ccpair energy loss is linear or quadratic with the path length is not determined. The obtained ccpair energy loss per unit path lengthα=2.78±0.81 GeV/fm, which indicates that the heavy quark in cold nuclear matter can lose more energy compared to the outgoing light quark.

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