Bottomonium production at sNN=200 GeV and sNN=5.5 TeV

L. Grandchamp, S. Lumpkins, D. Sun, H. van Hees, and R. Rapp
Phys. Rev. C 73, 064906 – Published 29 June 2006

Abstract

Properties of bottomonia (ϒ,χb, and ϒ') 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+ϒb+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¯+ϒg,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 ϒ-formation rates, are estimated according to a recent Fokker-Planck treatment. Predictions for the centrality dependence of ϒ production are given for upcoming experiments at RHIC and LHC. At both energies, ϒ suppression turns out to be the prevalent effect.

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  • Received 29 July 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.73.064906

©2006 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

L. Grandchamp

  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

S. Lumpkins

  • University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA, and Cyclotron Institute and Physics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3366, USA

D. Sun, H. van Hees, and R. Rapp

  • Cyclotron Institute and Physics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3366, USA

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Vol. 73, Iss. 6 — June 2006

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