Color Deconfinement and Charmonium Production in Nuclear Collisions
Louis Kluberg, Helmut Satz
TL;DR
This paper reviews how color deconfinement in quark-gluon plasma affects charmonium production in high-energy nuclear collisions, analyzing experimental data from CERN-SPS and BNL-RHIC to understand the properties of the partonic medium.
Contribution
It offers a comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of theoretical models and experimental measurements of charmonium production in nuclear collisions.
Findings
Charmonium suppression indicates color deconfinement.
Experimental data supports the formation of quark-gluon plasma.
Theoretical models are consistent with observed suppression patterns.
Abstract
In statistical QCD, color deconfinement and the properties of the quark-gluon plasma determine the in-medium behavior of heavy quark bound states. In high energy nuclear collisions, charmonia probe the partonic medium produced in the early stages of the interaction. We survey the present theoretical status and provide a critical evaluation of the charmonium production measurements in experiments at the CERN-SPS and the BNL-RHIC.
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