BARC/PUB/2022/0604

 
 

Measurement of Ψ(2S) nuclear modification at backward and forward rapidity in p+p, p+Al, and p+Au collisions at √sNN =200 GeV

 
     
 
Author(s)

Acharya, U. A.; Aidala, C.; Akiba, Y.; Mishra, D. K.; Shukla, P.; and others
(BARC)

Source

Physical Review-C, 2022. Vol. 105: Article no. 64912

ABSTRACT

Suppression of the J/ψ nuclear-modification factor has been seen as a trademark signature of final-state effects in large collision systems for decades. In small systems, the nuclear modification was attributed to coldnuclear-matter effects until the observation of strong differential suppression of the ψ(2S) state in p + A and d + A collisions suggested the presence of final-state effects. Results of J/ψ and ψ(2S) measurements in the dimuon decay channel are presented here for p + p, p + Al, and p + Au collision systems at √sNN = 200 GeV. The results are predominantly shown in the form of the nuclear-modification factor, RpA, the ratio of the ψ(2S) invariant yield per nucleon-nucleon collision in collisions of proton on target nucleus to that in p + p collisions. Measurements of the J/ψ and ψ(2S) nuclear-modification factor are compared with shadowing and transportmodel predictions, as well as to complementary measurements at Large Hadron Collider energies.

 
 
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