Color screening scenario for quarkonia suppression in a quasiparticle model compared with data obtained from experiments at the CERN SPS, BNL RHIC, and CERN LHC

Abstract

We present a modified color screening model for J/ψ suppression in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) using the quasiparticle model (QPM) as the equation of state (EOS). Other theoretical ingredients incorporated in the model are feed-down from higher resonances, namely, χc, and ψ′, dilated formation time for quarkonia, and viscous effects of the QGP medium. By assuming further that the QGP is expanding with Bjorken's hydrodynamical expansion, the present model is used to analyze the centrality dependence of the J/ψ suppression in the mid-rapidity region and compare it with the data obtained from Super Proton Synchrotron, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and Large Hadron Collider experiments. We find that the centrality dependence of the data for the survival probability at all energies is well reproduced by our model. We further compare our model predictions with the results obtained from the bag model EOS for QGP which has usually been used earlier in all such calculations