Charmonium production in heavy-ion collisions
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 09 Jun 2010 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
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| Location: | A401 Zaffarano Hall |
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| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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We investigate charmonium production in the hot and dense medium created in heavy-ion collisions. We employ a Boltzmann-transport equation approach accounting for both in-medium dissociation (due to the color-Debye screening) and regeneration (through the coalescence from charm quarks) of charmonia. The in-medium masses and binding energies of charmonia are deduced from lattice-QCD calculations via a (T-matrix) potential model. The numerical results are compared with experimental data at CERN SPS and BNL RHIC.