1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw, 50-204 Wroclaw, Poland;2. Bogoliubov Lab. for Theoretical Physics, JINR Dubna, 141980 Dubna, Russia
Abstract:
A kinetic equation approach is applied to model anomalous J/ψ suppression at RHIC and SPS by absorption in a hadron resonance gas which successfully describes statistical hadron production in both experiments. The puzzling rapidity dependence of the PHENIX data is reproduced as a geometric effect due to a longer absorption path for J/ψ production at forward rapidity.