# J/$\psi$ production in indium-indium collisions at SPS energies

Abstract : The NA60 experiment collected data on dimuon production in indium-indium collisions at 158 GeV/c per incident nucleon, in year 2003, to contribute to the clarification of several questions raised by previous experiments studying high-energy heavy-ion physics at the CERN SPS in search of the quark gluon plasma. Among these previous results stands the observation, by NA50, that the production yield of J/psi mesons is suppressed in central Pb-Pb collisions beyond the normal nuclear absorption defined by proton-nucleus data. By comparing the centrality dependence of the suppression pattern between different colliding systems, S-U, Pb-Pb and In-In, we should be able to identify the corresponding scaling variable, and the physics mechanism driving the suppression. In this paper, we will present the ratio of J/psi and Drell-Yan production cross-sections in indium-indium collisions, in three centrality bins, and how these values compare to previous measurements. We will also present a study of the transverse momentum distributions of the J/psi mesons, in seven centrality bins.
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### Citation

Philippe Pillot, R. Arnaldi, R. Avebeck, K. Banicz, J. Castor, et al.. J/$\psi$ production in indium-indium collisions at SPS energies. QCD@Work 2005 International Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamics: Theory and Experiment, Jun 2005, Conversano, Bari, Italy. pp.279-285, ⟨10.1063/1.2163775⟩. ⟨in2p3-00025240⟩

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