THE PT DEPENDENCE OF DILEPTON PRODUCTION IN NUCLEAR COLLISIONS

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SATZ, H [1 ]
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[1] UNIV BIELEFELD, FAK PHYS, W-4800 BIELEFELD, GERMANY
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10.1016/0370-2693(90)91603-9
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P1 [天文学];
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The PT distribution of massive lepton pairs produced in hadron-nucleus (h-A) collisions becomes broader with increasing A. In a framework based on perturbative QCD, this effect can be interpreted as elastic initial-state parton scattering, and it is predicted to saturate for large A. We show that an extrapolation of this behaviour to nucleus-nucleus collisions is in accord with measured continuum (Drell-Yan) dilepton behaviour, but that it cannot account for the PT dependence of J/Ψ suppression. Consequently, the behaviour of 〈PT2〉J/Ψ/ 〈PT2〉D-Y in the large-ET region nuclear collisions provides a crucial test for the production of a quark-gluon plasma. © 1990.
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