Production and absorption of $c\bar{c}$ pairs in nuclear collisions at SPS energies

Abstract

We study the production of $c\bar{c}$ pairs and dimuons from hard collisions in nuclear reactions within the covariant transport approach HSD, which describes successfully both hadronic and electromagnetic observables from p+A and A+A collisions from SIS to SPS energies. The production of $c\bar{c}$ and Drell-Yan pairs is treated perturbatively employing experimental cross sections while the interactions of $c\bar{c}$ pairs with hadrons are included by conventional cascade-type two-body collisions. Adopting 6mb for the $c\bar{c}$-baryon cross sections the data on $J/\Psi$ suppression in p+A reactions are reproduced in line with calculations based on the Glauber model. We study different models for $c\bar{c}$ dissociation on mesons in comparison with the experimental data of the HELIOS-3, NA38 and NA50 collaborations. Adopting absorption cross sections with mesons above the $D\bar{D}$ threshold in the order of 1.5 - 3mb we find that all data on $J/\Psi$ suppression from both proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions can be described without assuming the formation of a quark-gluon plasma in these collisions.

27 pages, LaTeX, including 13 postscript figures, to appear in Nucl. Phys. A

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