Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universit?t Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 19, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, DE Max-Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Postfach 103980, 69029 Heidelberg, Germany, DE
Abstract:
Prompt gluons are an additional source for charmonium suppression in nuclear collisions, in particular for nucleus-nucleus
collisions. These gluons are radiated as bremsstrahlung in N-N collisions and interact inelastically with the charmonium states
while the nuclei still overlap. The spectra and mean number <ng> of the prompt gluons are calculated perturbatively and the inelastic cross section σabsΨg is estimated. The integrated cross sections σ(A B →J/ψX) for p-A and A-B collisions and the dependence on transverse energy for S-U and Pb-Pb can be described quantitatively with
some adjustment of one parameter <ng>σabsΨg.
Received: 20 August 1999