Signatures of the color glass condensate in J/Ψ production off nuclear targets

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.01.017

Nuclear Physics A

Volume 770, Issues 1–2, 1 May 2006, Pages 40-56

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Abstract

We consider the $J / Ψ$ production in proton (deuteron)–nucleus collisions at high energies. We argue that the production mechanism in this case is different from that in pp collisions due to gluon saturation in the nucleus and formation of the color glass condensate. At forward rapidities (in the proton fragmentation region), the production of $J / Ψ$ is increasingly suppressed both as a function of rapidity and centrality. On the other hand, at backward rapidities at RHIC (in the fragmentation region of the nucleus) the coherent effects lead to a modest enhancement of the production cross section, with the nuclear modification factor $R_{J / Ψ}$ increasing with centrality. We find that the $J / Ψ$ production cross section exhibits at forward rapidities the limiting fragmentation scaling established previously for soft processes; in the energy range studied experimentally, it manifests itself as an approximate “ $x_{F}$ scaling”.

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