Date: Thursday Sept. 13, 2018 at 4pm
Location: 223 Herman Brown Hall, Rice University
Abstract
Measurements of quarkonium production are an important tool to study the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Quarkonium suppression due to the color-screening effect was proposed as a direct evidence of the QGP formation. However, other effects, such as cold nuclear matter effects and regeneration, add additional complications to the interpretation of the observed suppression. Different quarkonium states with different binding energies are expected to dissociate at different temperatures, and therefore measurement of this “sequential melting” can help constrain the temperature of the medium. In this seminar, I will present and discuss the latest measurements of quarkonium (J/psi and Upsilon) production in p+p, p+Au and Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV with the STAR experiment.