Percolation approach to Quark Gluon Plasma and $J/\psi$ suppression

Abstract

It is shown that the critical threshold for percolation of the overlapping strings exchanged in heavy ion collisions can naturally explain the sharp strong suppresion of $J/\psi$ shown by the experimental data on central Pb--Pb collisions, which does not occur in central O--U and S--U collisions.

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