Vector meson production and nuclear effects in FNAL E866
Conference
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OSTI ID:334339
Fermilab E866/NUSEA is a fixed-target experiment which has made a number of measurements of the production of vector mesons by 800 GeV protons. The nuclear dependence results include measurements for J/{psi}, {psi}{prime} and {phi} production over very broad ranges in {chi}{sub F} and p{sub T}, and the J/{psi} decay angular distribution at very large {chi}{sub F}. Preliminary results from measurements on Be, Fe and W targets are presented and discussed in the context of nuclear effects such as energy loss and multiple scattering of the partons, absorption of the produced c{bar c} pairs, and shadowing. Production mechanisms involving color-singlet or color-octet states for the c{bar c} pair which eventually forms a J/{psi} or {psi}{prime}, have implications on the strength of absorption in the nucleus and on the angular distribution of the decay muons. Their preliminary results on the angular distributions versus {chi}{sub F} and p{sub T} indicate some transverse polarization of the J/{psi} as predicted by models of production through the color octet state. The measurements of dimuons in the 1 to 3 GeV region explore the nuclear dependence of the {phi} meson and also the composition of the continuum between the {phi} and the J/{psi}. These studies of vector meson production and it`s nuclear dependence are critical in furthering the understanding of these processes towards future measurements at RHIC and new results from NA50 at CERN, where J/{psi} suppression is predicted to be an important signature of the creation of quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 334339
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--98-3370; CONF-9805166--; ON: DE99002282
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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