Quarkonium Suppression from Coherent Energy Loss in Fixed-Target Experiments Using LHC Beams

• Main Authors: François Arleo, Stéphane Peigné
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
• Series: Advances in High Energy Physics
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/961951

Quarkonium production in proton-nucleus collisions is a powerful tool to disentangle cold nuclear matter effects. A model based on coherent energy loss is able to explain the available quarkonium suppression data in a broad range of rapidities, from fixed-target to collider energies, suggesting coherent energy loss in cold nuclear matter to be the dominant effect in quarkonium suppression in p-A collisions. This could be further tested in a high-energy fixed-target experiment using a proton or nucleus beam. The nuclear modification factors of J/ψ and Υ as a function of rapidity are computed in p-A collisions at s=114.6 GeV, and in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at s=72 GeV. These center-of-mass energies correspond to the collision on fixed-target nuclei of 7 TeV protons and 2.76 TeV (per nucleon) lead nuclei available at the LHC.