Measurement of Sequential ? Suppression in Au+Au Collisions at sNN =200 GeV with the STAR Experiment

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Measurement of Sequential ? Suppression in Au+Au Collisions at sNN =200 GeV with the STAR Experiment

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We report on measurements of sequential ? suppression in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV with the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) through both the dielectron and dimuon decay channels. In the 0%-60% centrality class, the nuclear modification factors (RAA), which quantify the level of yield suppression in heavy-ion collisions compared to p+p collisions, for ?(1S) and ?(2S) are 0.40±0.03(stat)±0.03(sys)±0.09(norm) and 0.26±0.08(stat)±0.02(sys)±0.06(norm), respectively, while the upper limit of the ?(3S) RAA is 0.17 at a 95% confidence level. This provides experimental evidence that the ?(3S) is significantly more suppressed than the ?(1S) at RHIC. The level of suppression for ?(1S) is comparable to that observed at the much higher collision energy at the Large Hadron Collider. These results point to the creation of a medium at RHIC whose temperature is sufficiently high to strongly suppress excited ? states.

Original language	English
Article number	112301
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	130
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.112301
State	Published - Mar 17 2023

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We thank the RHIC Operations Group and RCF at BNL, the NERSC Center at LBNL, and the Open Science Grid consortium for providing resources and support. This work was supported in part by the Office of Nuclear Physics within the U.S. DOE Office of Science, the U.S. National Science Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Science, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the Chinese Ministry of Education, the Higher Education Sprout Project by Ministry of Education at NCKU, the National Research Foundation of Korea, Czech Science Foundation and Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, New National Excellency Programme of the Hungarian Ministry of Human Capacities, Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, the National Science Centre and WUT ID-UB of Poland, the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, German Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung and Technologie (BMBF), Helmholtz Association, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

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Hungarian Ministry of Human Capacities
National Research Foundation of Korea
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Grantová Agentura České Republiky
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal
Ministry of Education at NCKU
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology
Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie
WUT ID-UB of Poland
Ministarstvo Obrazovanja, Znanosti i Sporta
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Office of Science Programs
Institute for Nuclear Physics
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science	19H05598

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