Abstract
 

J/Ψ Measurements in Au+Au and p+p Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
(oral presentation)
Johan E. Gonzalez
University of California, Los Angeles

 

In a system of deconfined quarks and gluons heavy quarkonium states are subject to dissociation via static mechanisms such as color screening or dynamic ones such as gluon scatterings. This leads to a suppression of hidden charm states, such as the J/Ψ. On the other hand, statistical hadronization models predict an enhanced production of hidden charm states for sufficiently high charm densities. We present first preliminary STAR results on J/Ψ production via electron-positron decay pairs in p+p and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200$ GeV. J/Ψ measurements in Au+Au collisions were primarily carried out with the STAR Time Projection Chamber (TPC). For J/Ψ measurements in p+p collisions, a special trigger was used and reconstruction was carried out with the TPC and the Barrel Electromagnetic Calorimeter. The implications of our measurements to models that predict copious J/$\Psi$ production via Statistical Hadronization are discussed.

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