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Transverse Momentum Distribution of J/Psi's in Pb-Pb Collisions and Gluon Rescattering
The transverse momentum dependence of J/Psi suppression in relativistic heavy
ion collisions is calculated from initial state gluon rescattering not only
with nucleons but also with prompt gluons produced in nucleon-nucleon
collisions in the early phase of the reaction. The second mechanism is new and
turns out to be important in a description of the data for central collisions.Comment: 15 pages,6 figure
J/\Psi N and Psi' N total cross sections from photoproduction data: failure of vector dominance
Values for the cross sections and are of crucial importance, once one wants to understand nuclear
suppression of () in a search for the quark gluon plasma. Quoted
values are usually extracted from data via the
vector dominance model (VDM) and are very small compared with expectations from
QCD. The validity of QCD is questioned. When the VDM is extended to a
multi-channel case, the data lead to a value , which is a factor 3
larger than the VDM prediction. Errors are due to experimental input, and the
corridor shows the theoretical uncertainty. We also derive from the data
, where we could not
estimate the theoretical uncertainty.Comment: 13 pages, 2 Postscript figure