Color Deconfinement and Charmonium Production in Nuclear Collisions

This document is part of Volume 23 ‘Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics’ of Landolt-Börnstein - Group I ‘Elementary Particles, Nuclei and Atoms’. It contains the Section ‘6.1 Color Deconfinement and Charmonium Production in Nuclear Collisions’ of the Chapter ‘6 Selective Tracer Signals of the QCD Plasma State’ with the content: 6.1 Color Deconfinement and Charmonium Production in Nuclear Collisions 6.1.1 Introduction 6.1.2 Theory 6.1.2.1 Heavy Quarks and Quarkonia 6.1.2.2 Quarkonium Binding and Dissociation 6.1.2.3 Thermal Quarkonium Dissociation 6.1.2.3.1 Interaction Range and Color Screening 6.1.2.3.2 Potential Model Studies 6.1.2.3.3 Charmonium Correlators 6.1.2.4 Charmonium Production in Hadronic Collisions 6.1.2.4.1 Elementary Collisions 6.1.2.4.2 p − A Collisions 6.1.2.4.3 Nuclear Collisions 6.1.2.4.4 Suppression by Comover Collisions 6.1.2.4.5 Suppression by Color Screening 6.1.2.4.6 Enhancement through Regeneration 6.1.2.4.7 Transverse Momentum Behavior 6.1.2.5 Summary of the Theoretical Status 6.1.3 Experiment 6.1.3.1 Charmonium Experiments at the CERN-SPS 6.1.3.1.1 The Nuclear Dependence of Charmonium Production 6.1.3.1.2 Normal Charmonium Production 6.1.3.1.3 The First Hints of an Anomaly in Pb-Pb Collisions 6.1.3.1.4 Anomalous J/ψ Suppression in Pb-Pb Collisions 6.1.3.1.5 J/ψ suppression versus the centrality of the collision 6.1.3.1.6 The transverse momentum dependence of J/ψ 6.1.3.1.7 J/ψ survival pattern: from p-p to Pb-Pb 6.1.3.2 Features of ψ' Suppression at SPS Energies 6.1.3.3 More Results from SPS and RHIC 6.1.3.3.1 J/ψ Suppression in In-In Collisions at 158 GeV 6.1.3.3.2 J/ψ Suppression in A-A Collisions at √s = 200 GeV 6.1.3.4 Discussion and Evaluation 6.1.3.5 Summary of the Experimental Status 6.1.4 Outlook