Theoretical Interpretations of J/Psi Suppression: A Summary

Abstract

The strong "anomalous" J/Psi suppression observed recently by the NA50 Collaboration at CERN SPS has attracted considerable attention. Is it the first signature of a long-awaited quark-gluon plasma, or just a peculiar combination of "conventional" effects acting together to produce the puzzling pattern observed experimentally? This talk is an attempt to summarize the theoretical explanations proposed during the last two years.

13 pages, 1 figure, invited plenary talk at Quark Matter'97 Conference, Tsukuba, Japan

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