Thermal versus Direct $J/\Psi$ Production in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Abstract

The production of $J/\Psi$ mesons in central collisions of heavy nuclei is investigated as a function of collision energy. Two contributions are considered simultaneously: early (hard) production coupled with subsequent suppression in a Quark-Gluon Plasma, as well as thermal recombination of primordially produced $c$ and $\bar{c}$ quarks at the hadronization transition. Whereas the former still constitutes the major fraction of the observed $J/\Psi$ abundance at SpS energies, the latter dominates the yield at RHIC. The resulting excitation function for the number of $J/\Psi$'s over open charm pairs exhibits nontrivial structure around $\sqrt{s}\simeq 30$ AGeV, evolving into a significant rise towards maximal RHIC energy. We study this feature within different (thermal) scenarios for $J/\Psi$ suppression, including parton-induced quasifree destruction as a novel mechanism.

6 pages ReVTeX, including 4 eps-figures; Revised version accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B

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