Quarkonium production in ALICE at the LHC

Hadjidakis, C. and Abelev, B. and Adam, J. and Adamová, D. and Aggarwal, M. M. and Aglieri, Rinella G. and Agnello, M. and Agostinelli, A. and Agrawal, N. and Ahammed, Z. and Ahmad, N. and Ahmad, Masoodi A. and Ahmed, I. and Ahn, S. U. and Ahn, S. A. and Aimo, I. and Aiola, S. and Ajaz, M. and Akindinov, A. and Aleksandrov, D. and Alessandro, B. and Alexandre, D. and Alici, A. and Alkin, A. and Alme, J. and Alt, T. and Altini, V. and Altinpinar, S. and Altsybeev, I. and Alves, Garcia Prado C. and Barnaföldi, Gergely Gábor and Bencédi, Gyula and Berényi, Dániel and Boldizsár, László and Dénes, Ervin and Hamar, Gergő and Kiss, Gábor and Varga-Kőfaragó, Mónika and Lévai, Péter and Oláh, László and Pochybova, Sona (2014) Quarkonium production in ALICE at the LHC. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A, 932. pp. 541-548. ISSN 0375-9474

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Abstract

In heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, the ALICE Collaboration is studying Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) matter at very high energy density where the formation of a Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is expected. Quarkonium production is an important probe to characterize the QGP properties. High precision data in pp collisions provide the baseline of Pb-Pb measurements and p-Pb collisions serve to quantify the amount of initial and/or final state effects, related to cold nuclear matter, that are largely unknown at the LHC energy. Since 2010, the LHC provided Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV, pp collisions at various energies and in 2013 p-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV. In ALICE, quarkonia can be reconstructed at forward rapidity in the dimuon channel and at mid-rapidity in the dielectron channel, and, for both channels, down to zero transverse momentum. New measurements on inclusive production of J/ψ, ψ(2S ) and Υ performed in p-Pb collisions and on the pT dependence of inclusive J/ψ in Pb-Pb collisions are presented. The contribution of J/ψ from B hadrons to the inclusive production in Pb-Pb is also discussed. Finally, an estimation of the cold nuclear matter effect in Pb-Pb, extrapolated from p-Pb measurements, is given.

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