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PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 706, Issue 4-5, Pages 263-267Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.042
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The NA60 experiment has studied J/psi production in p-A collisions at 158 and 400 GeV, at the CERN SPS. Nuclear effects on the J/psi yield have been estimated from the A-dependence of the production cross section ratios sigma(A)(J/psi)/sigma(Be)(J/psi) (A = Al, Cu, In, W, Pb, U). We observe a significant nuclear suppression of the J/psi yield per nucleon-nucleon collision, with a larger effect at lower incident energy, and we compare this result with previous observations by other fixed-target experiments. An attempt to disentangle the different contributions to the observed suppression has been carried out by studying the dependence of nuclear effects on x(2), the fraction of the nucleon momentum carried by the interacting parton in the target nucleus. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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