Charmonium disintegration by field ionization

C. Adami; M. Prakash; I. Zahed

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(89)91505-0

Charmonium disintegration by field ionization

C. Adami
, M. Prakash
, I. Zahed

Physics and Astronomy

Stony Brook University

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Abstract

Charmonium bound states immersed in a coherent chromo-electric field are easily ripped apart for field strengths comparable to the QCD string tension. Estimates based on flux tube models suggest that field strengths of such magnitude may be achieved in heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies. Our results suggest that charmonium suppression would not discriminate between a coherent and a thermalized post collision state in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5-8
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	217
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(89)91505-0
State	Published - Jan 19 1989

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