Experimental overview on quarkonium production

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent experimental results on quarkonium production in heavy-ion collisions, highlighting how these findings enhance understanding of quark-gluon plasma formation at RHIC and LHC.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent experimental data on charmonium and bottomonium production, emphasizing new insights gained from RHIC and LHC measurements.

Findings

Enhanced understanding of quarkonium suppression patterns.

Insights into quark-gluon plasma properties from recent data.

Comparison of charmonium and bottomonium behavior in different collision systems.

Abstract

Quarkonium production in heavy-ion collisions is a well-known signature of the formation of a plasma of quarks and gluons (QGP). After thirty years from the first measurements at SPS energies, a large wealth of results is now accessible from high-energy experiments at RHIC and LHC, and these new data are contributing to sharpen the picture of the quarkonium behaviour in A-A collisions. In this paper, an overview of the main results on both charmonium and bottomonium production in p-A and A-A collisions is presented, focussing on the most recent achievements from the RHIC and LHC experiments.