Bottomonium production at {radical}(s{sub NN})=200 GeV and {radical}(s{sub NN})=5.5 TeV
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
Properties of bottomonia ({upsilon},{chi}{sub b}, and {upsilon}{sup '}) in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) are investigated by assessing inelastic reaction rates and their interplay with open-bottom states (b quarks or B mesons) and color screening. The latter leads to vanishing quarkonium-binding energies at sufficiently high temperatures (close to the dissolution point), which, in particular, renders standard gluo-dissociation, g+ {upsilon}{yields}b+b, inefficient because of a substantial reduction in final-state phase space. This problem is overcome by invoking a 'quasifree' destruction mechanism, g,q,q+ {upsilon}{yields}g,q,q+b+b, as previously introduced for charmonia. The pertinent reaction rates are implemented into a kinetic theory framework to evaluate the time evolution of bottomonia in heavy-ion reactions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the CERN Large Hadron Collider within an expanding fireball model. Although bottom quarks are assumed to be exclusively produced in primordial nucleon-nucleon collisions, their thermal relaxation times in the QGP, which importantly figure into {upsilon}-formation rates, are estimated according to a recent Fokker-Planck treatment. Predictions for the centrality dependence of {upsilon} production are given for upcoming experiments at RHIC and LHC. At both energies, {upsilon} suppression turns out to be the prevalent effect.
- OSTI ID:
- 20771601
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 73, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.73.064906; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2813
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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