High-energy heavy-ion collisions are a powerful tool in the laboratory to investigate the phase transition from ordinary nuclear matter to a deconfined state of quarks and gluons, called the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), which is predicted to be formed above a temperature of order Tc ~ 170 MeV in lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Suppression of J/Ï production has long been considered to be one of the most promising signatures for the deconfinement of matter. J/Ï production has been measured by the PHENIX experiment, one of the two major experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in p + p, d + Au, Au + Au and Cu + Cu collisions at the center of mass energy per nucleon (âsNN) of 200 GeV. The analysis of the Cu + Cu data is the focus of this dissertation. Yields of J/Psi production in Cu + Cu collisions at âsNN = 200 GeV have been measured by the PHENIX experiment over the rapidity range |y| / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Physics in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2008. / Date of Defense: April 7, 2008. / Heavy-Ion Collisions, J/Psi, Nuclear Physics / Includes bibliographical references. / Volker Crede, Professor Directing Dissertation; Sanford Safron, Outside Committee Member; Anthony D. Frawley, Committee Member; Simon Capstick, Committee Member; Howie Baer, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_169016 |
| Contributors | Das, Kushal (authoraut), Crede, Volker (professor directing dissertation), Safron, Sanford (outside committee member), Frawley, Anthony D. (committee member), Capstick, Simon (committee member), Baer, Howie (committee member), Department of Physics (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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