Upsilon production as a probe of the early state in heavy ion collisions

21 May 2014, 10:20
20m
platinum (darmstadtium)

platinum

darmstadtium

Schlossgraben 1 64283 Darmstadt Germany
Contributed Talk Open Heavy Flavour and Quarkonia Heavy flavor

Speaker

Prof. Pengfei Zhuang (Tsinghua University)

Description

Upsilon production in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC is investigated. While the transverse momentum spectra of the ground state Upsilon(1s) are controlled by the initial state Cronin effect, the excited states are characterized by the competition between the cold and hot nuclear matter effects and sensitive to the dissociation temperatures determined by the heavy quark potential. We emphasize that it is necessary to measure the excited heavy quark states in order to extract the early stage information in high energy nuclear collisions.

Primary author

Prof. Pengfei Zhuang (Tsinghua University)

Co-authors

Mr Kai Zhou (Tsinghua University) Dr Nu Xu (LBNL)

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