<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">OJM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Open Journal of Microphysics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2162-2450</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/ojm.2012.22003</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">OJM-19228</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Production of J/Ψ-Particles at RHIC and LHC Energies: An Alternative “Psi”-Chology
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>.</surname><given-names>Guptaroy</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Goutam</surname><given-names>Sau</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>S.</surname><given-names>K. Biswas</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"><sup>3</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>S.</surname><given-names>Bhattacharyya</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4"><sup>4</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff4"><addr-line>Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit (PAMU), Indian Statistical Institute</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff3"><addr-line>West Kodalia Adarsha Siksha Sadan</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Beramara Ram Chandrapur High School</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Physics, Raghunathpur College</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>gpradeepta@rediffmail.com(.G)</email>;<email>sau_goutam@yahoo.com(GS)</email>;<email>sunil_biswas2004@yahoo.com(SKB)</email>;<email>bsubrata@isical.ac.in(SB)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>23</day><month>05</month><year>2012</year></pub-date><volume>02</volume><issue>02</issue><fpage>19</fpage><lpage>26</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>February</day>	<month>15,</month>	<year>2012</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>March</day>	<month>22,</month>	<year>2012</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>April</day>	<month>5,</month>	<year>2012</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  We attempt here to understand successfully some crucial aspects of J/Ψ-production in some high energy nuclear collisions in the light of a non-standard framework outlined in the text. It is found that the results arrived at with this main working approach here is fairly in good agreement with both the measured data and the results obtained on the basis of some other models of the ‘standard’ variety. Impact and implications of this comparative study have also been precisely highlighted in the end.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions; Inclusive Production; Charmed Meson</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>The study of the J/Ψ-mesons in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions has consistently been considered to be a potentially powerful tool for studying the properties of the hypothetical ‘hot and dense matter’ created in these collisions. Predictions about the suppression of J/Ψ-meson production in the nuclear collision, at certain stages [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref1">1</xref>] and an anomalous enhancement at certain other stage as well [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref2">2</xref>] are always treated as very powerful diagnostics. The deciding factor, in terms of the Standard Model (SM), in both the cases, is the number of charm-anticharm (<img src="2-1220022\1b434f12-26e5-463f-aefc-cee8fbb82e89.jpg" />) pairs (<img src="2-1220022\5b87fe1f-a8a0-4c91-9211-3f5e8151467a.jpg" />) created in the early stage of hard parton collisions in A + A (or in A + B) reactions. On the basis of it, one might arrive at the assumptions of the J/Ψ-suppression (at <img src="2-1220022\39ec1ad0-6bf3-4a07-8356-25d9e34b76ac.jpg" /> &lt; 1) and the J/Ψ-enhancement (at <img src="2-1220022\281148c5-5aba-4e0b-bc6e-218dd6dc9c2f.jpg" /> &gt; 1) effects.</p><p>In the past, [3-5] we had constantly refrained from giving such undue importance to any controversy about either suppression/enhanced suppression or an enhancement of J/Ψ mesons in reality. Rather our primary intent would centre around understanding and interpreting the nature of data of inclusive cross-sections and some other important observables of J/Ψ mesons in BNL-RHIC and CERN-LHC experiments. In fact, we have an altogether different and heretic view (which will be outlined very briefly in the next section) about the mechanism of J/Ψ production in high energy particle and nuclear collisions.</p><p>We define our objectives here as: 1) to explain the main and major features of the latest data on J/Ψ-production in BNL-RHIC and CERN-LHC experiments from the proposed alternative approach built up by us in a set of previous works done in the both the remote and recent past [6,7] and 2) to compare our model-based calculations with some other competing models.</p><p>Our plan of work presented here is as follows. In Section 2, we provide brief outlines of the models chosen for this study. The Section 3 provides very brief outlines of the models which are founded on the gantlets of assumptions of the “Standard”-model and which have been reckoned with for the sake of comparison. In Section 4 we give the results and general discussion. And in the last section (Section 5) we offer the final remarks and the conclusions arrived at.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. The Main Approach: An Outline</title><p>In the present work, we will make use of a theoretical model to interpret some of the latest and topical observables of the J/Ψ production which were measured and reported by the different groups in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments in the recent past. The model has a modest degree of dynamical basis and some prior check-ups with data [3-5]. It is called here as the sequential chain model (SCM).</p><p>The outline and features of the model we use here are obtained, in the main, from our previous works [3-5].</p><p>According to this model, high energy hadronic interactions boil down, essentially, to the pion-pion interactions; as the protons are conceived in this model as p = (π<sup>+</sup>π<sup>0</sup>ϑ), where ϑ is a spectator particle needed for the dynamical generation of quantum numbers of the nucleons. The multiple production of J/Ψ-mesons in a high energy proton-proton collisions is described in the following way. The secondary π-meson or the exchanged ϱ-meson emit a free ω-meson and pi-meson; the pions so produced at high energies could liberate another pair of free ϱ and trapped ω-mesons (in the multiple production chain). These so-called free ϱ and ω-mesons decay quite a fast into photons and these photons decay into Ψ or Ψ′ particles, which, according to this alternative approach is a bound state of <img src="2-1220022\ab3bc462-6f5d-4063-8066-3daa914368c9.jpg" /> or <img src="2-1220022\da218e4d-7f84-4c86-b501-a509e21bd36d.jpg" /> particles.</p><p>The inclusive cross-section of the Ψ-meson produced in the pp collisions given by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.19228-formula50163"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="2-1220022\da7762a1-1454-4f60-a29f-d042479e84af.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where the expression for average multiplicity for Ψ-particles in pp scattering would be given by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.19228-formula50164"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="2-1220022\2625b50b-bfdf-49f8-878c-6bae1cc42da7.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>In the above expression, the term <img src="2-1220022\a1ebbd8f-5411-4cfe-9be3-6f8d07d31ca0.jpg" /> is a normalisation parameter and is assumed here to have a value <img src="2-1220022\74423ba6-1921-4169-a02c-59d0c3bae4da.jpg" /> 0.09 for Intersecting Storage Ring (ISR) energy, and it is different for different energy and for various collisions. The terms<img src="2-1220022\26a94255-aea6-4bd4-95fe-1b04c29f5643.jpg" />, x and <img src="2-1220022\9e95d474-a881-4014-a612-f03fa88d8a8f.jpg" /> represent the transverse momentum, Feynman scaling variable and the rest mass of the J/Ψ particle respectively. Moreover, by definition, <img src="2-1220022\96a531e1-7ee5-4d6a-8c83-ded39b1fa423.jpg" />where <img src="2-1220022\7e03c517-c662-44ab-abf9-f2abafda32f5.jpg" />is the longitudinal momentum of the particle. The s in Equation (2) is the square of the cm energy.</p><p>The second term in the right hand side of the Equation (1), the constituent rearrangement term arises out of the partonic rearrangements inside the proton. It is established that hadrons (baryons and mesons) are composed of few partons. These rearrangements mean undesirable loss of energy, in so far as the production mechanism is concerned. The choice of <img src="2-1220022\a51d2960-6ad2-4e40-bbf6-03e66ede4e9e.jpg" /> would depend on the following factors: 1) the specificities of the interacting projectile and target; 2) the particularities of the seconddaries emitted from a specific hadronic or nuclear interaction and 3) the magnitudes of the momentum transfers and of a phase factor (with a maximum value of unity) in the rearrangement process in any collision. The parametrisation is to be done for two physical points, viz., the amount of momentum transfer and the contributions from a phase factor arising out of the rearrangement of the constituent partons. Collecting and combining all these, we propose the relation to be given by [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref8">8</xref>]</p><disp-formula id="scirp.19228-formula50165"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="2-1220022\f21377fb-3610-4527-a099-a9e21acd5441.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <img src="2-1220022\35ac81a3-bc76-4850-bc83-e10e36f59dc7.jpg" /> denotes the average number of participating nucleons and <img src="2-1220022\70cbace3-e467-4163-90e9-48d18de29a50.jpg" /> values are to be obtained phenomenologically from the fits to the data-points [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref9">9</xref>].</p><p>In order to study a nuclear interaction of the type A + B → Q + x, where A and B are projectile and target nucleus respectively, and Q is the detected particle which, in the present case, would be J/Ψ-mesons, the SCM has been adapted, on the basis of the suggested Wong [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref10">10</xref>] work to the Glauber techniques. The inclusive cross-sections for J/Ψ production in different nuclear interactions of the types A + B → J/Ψ + X in the light of this modified Sequential Chain Model (SCM) can then be written in the following generalised form as:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.19228-formula50166"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="2-1220022\041c14ef-cadf-40c8-b166-8ad852471b0a.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<img src="2-1220022\7617d8b3-2511-41d2-8c71-640f31d4d80c.jpg" />, <img src="2-1220022\3b1008c8-90c3-4339-bd19-57e2087f4c54.jpg" />and c are the factors to be calculated under certain physical constraints. The set of relations to be used for evaluating the parameters <img src="2-1220022\85465e28-04bc-4273-8cbc-7d8d951a9392.jpg" /> is given below.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.19228-formula50167"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="2-1220022\d8d8c9e0-5704-46de-a606-4d2092187d1a.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Here, in the above set of equations, the third factor gives a measure of the number of wounded nucleons i.e. of the probable number of participants, wherein <img src="2-1220022\055b691a-1435-4fc5-8b1b-8fc11918b71d.jpg" /> gives the probability cross-section of collision with ‘B’ nucleus (target), had all the nucleons of A suffered collisions with B-target. And <img src="2-1220022\e6f231d4-85b1-41ce-9e80-4b821b6f0b12.jpg" /> has just the same physical meaning, with A and B replaced.</p><p>Besides, in expression (5), the fourth term is a physical factor related with energy degradation of the secondaries due to multiple collision effects. The parameter <img src="2-1220022\904431e5-7359-4414-a70b-12ca477d9598.jpg" /> occurring in Equation (5) above is a measure of the fraction of the nucleons that suffer energy loss. The maximum value of <img src="2-1220022\47ef4a88-556e-4f19-aded-7701f9c28dab.jpg" /> is unity, while all the nucleons suffer energy loss. This <img src="2-1220022\3f89e13a-5174-4b7f-8093-d3f97b90f0a1.jpg" /> parameter is usually to be chosen [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref10">10</xref>], depending on the centrality of the collisions and the nature of the secondaries. The “a” factor in the expression (5) accommodates a wide range of variation because of the existence of the large differences in the in the normalizations of the J/Ψ cross-sections for different types of interactions.</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Some Competing Models: The Brief Outlines</title><sec id="s3_1"><title>3.1. The Gluon Saturation Approach</title><p>In this approach [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref11">11</xref>], it is assumed that the nuclear wave functions in very high-energy nuclear collisions can be described by the Color Glass Condensate (CGC). The primary effect is the suppression of J/Ψ production and narrowing of the rapidity distribution due to saturation of the gluon fields in heavy ion collisions relative to p + p collisions. In addition, the production mechanism is modified from p + p such that the multigluon exchange diagrams are enhanced in heavy ion reactions. It should be noted that this model does not include any hot medium effects, but does have a free parameter for the overall normalization factor.</p></sec><sec id="s3_2"><title>3.2. The Quark Coalescence Model (QCM)</title><p>The Quark Coalescence Model (QCM) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref12">12</xref>], is a twostage simulation. In stage I the incoming target and projectile nucleon interactions are tracked, a fluid of prehadrons is formed and in stage II the produced pre-hadrons interact and decay in a standard relativistic cascade model. The time history of all the collisions recorded in stage I sets up the geometry and initial conditions for stage II. Basic inputs for the simulation are measured hadron-hadron cross-sections, rapidity, transverse momentum and particle multiplicity distributions, of which the last are conforming to KNO scaling. The basic assumption of the model is coalescence of charm quarks and antiquarks into charmonia (<img src="2-1220022\4721e189-b7a9-45f4-8418-2bf8b0c1fe8a.jpg" />→ charmonium), which can also be viewed as heavy pre-hadrons in stage I. Only a small percentage of charm quarks are expected to coalesce into bound charmonia i.e. J/Ψ, the remainder of such quarks appear ultimately as open charm mesons. At RHIC energies comover suppression of directly produced charmonia is expected to be large, due to the increased particle numbers and densities.</p></sec><sec id="s3_3"><title>3.3. Double Color Filter-Oriented Approach</title><p>A mechanism called double color filtering for <img src="2-1220022\74b0d7ce-8546-4e02-8595-ff33c5aba3cf.jpg" /> dipoles [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref13">13</xref>], makes nuclei significantly more transparent in AA than pA collisions. The assumption of this model is as follows: In the cm of nuclear collision the nuclear disks passing through each other leave behind a cloud of radiated gluons creating a dense matter, which the J/Ψ propagates through. In this reference frame the J/Ψ full momentum is<img src="2-1220022\f7aafdbb-7f32-4857-a644-ed0acdb59342.jpg" />, which ranges from zero to several GeV in RHIC data. Such a low energy <img src="2-1220022\79c06ce3-9936-4c33-8f42-5251e0db2256.jpg" /> dipole develops the J/Ψ wave function pretty fast, during time <img src="2-1220022\7d25004a-26ac-4218-8251-f88374ad2e2c.jpg" /> &lt; 0.5 fm, which is about the time scale of the medium creation. Thus, what is propagating through the medium is not a small <img src="2-1220022\9e193e08-0868-4838-a7b6-6091a78987ea.jpg" /> dipole, but a fully formed J/Ψ. The observed nuclear effects in J/Ψ production in AA collisions is interpreted as a combination of final state interaction (FSI) of J/Ψ in the dense medium, and the initial state interaction (ISI) effects in production of J/Ψ caused by multiple interactions of the colliding nuclei.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. The Results</title><p>Now let us proceed to apply the chosen model to interpret some recent experimental results of J/Ψ-production reported by various groups for different collisions like p + p, d + Au, Cu + Cu, Au + Au at RHIC and p + p, Pb + Pb at LHC. Here, the main observables are the invariant yields, rapidity distributions and the nuclear modification factors which would come under purview of the present work.</p><sec id="s4_1"><title>4.1. J/Ψ (Total) Cross-Sections and Rapidity Distribution in p + p Interactions</title><p>As the psi-productions are generically treated rightly as the resonance particles, the standard practice is to express the measured J/Ψ (total) cross-sections times branching ratio to muon or electrons, i.e. for lepton pairs, that is by<img src="2-1220022\5a0c4ae6-4565-4d27-9374-fa705f46d5ac.jpg" />.</p><p>By using Expression (4) we arrive at the expressions for the differential cross-sections for the production of J/Ψ-mesons in the mid and forward-rapidities (i.e. <img src="2-1220022\2d112676-cbd6-41b9-95f5-55c218ca1a34.jpg" /> and <img src="2-1220022\d03773ea-7fbc-46d4-a45f-58d4361eafeb.jpg" /> respectively) in p + p collisions at <img src="2-1220022\20eb11f0-6996-427d-a8d7-4d848e92a92c.jpg" /> = 200 GeV at RHIC.</p><p><img src="2-1220022\0dbf9a6e-3709-4ebc-b4cd-8dcf060775bd.jpg" /></p><p>for <img src="2-1220022\09cc43a0-e19b-4af3-8e7b-fcce10b58470.jpg" /> (6)</p><p>and</p><p><img src="2-1220022\f36efb8e-ef56-4150-9554-a1ee1d339b40.jpg" /></p><p>for <img src="2-1220022\c3a5de52-7345-414c-9162-e7f1a6200c95.jpg" />(7)</p><p>For deriving the Expressions (6) and (7) we have used the relation <img src="2-1220022\a9c54d53-b638-41d6-afa7-48dde1de6c13.jpg" /> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref14">14</xref>], where<img src="2-1220022\b80b3eda-69ed-4366-8df7-5b166afdc595.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="2-1220022\1d54fbe9-3256-47c3-9e3d-69b8cfce8a8a.jpg" />are the transverse mass of the produced particles and the rapidity distributions. <img src="2-1220022\0a3575eb-d12f-4938-9d5c-dbb1c3db5ab5.jpg" />MeV [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref14">14</xref>] and<img src="2-1220022\e866cd45-73ae-421a-8916-bc49f2c83d3d.jpg" />, the branching ratio is for muons or electrons i.e. for lepton pairs <img src="2-1220022\8b7d0241-5b24-4eb9-a50a-1e1e70e1e1b1.jpg" /> is taken as <img src="2-1220022\dcb546ed-950d-4f83-a30d-7ded593e2acb.jpg" /> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref14">14</xref>] in calculating the above equations.</p><p>In a similar fashion, the total inclusive cross-sections for the production of J/Ψ-mesons in different rapidities (i.e., <img src="2-1220022\aef1c6b8-6b9e-43b7-affa-e467f1a54b8d.jpg" />and <img src="2-1220022\118b89e0-91bb-4582-9bb8-532257f6f00c.jpg" /> respectively) in p + p collisions at <img src="2-1220022\7fdd94a1-4328-4633-8515-87ecc855e532.jpg" /> = 7 TeV at LHC would be,</p><p><img src="2-1220022\ee448ec6-bcd9-4a16-92a8-1baaa0e65dca.jpg" /></p><p>for <img src="2-1220022\5d3b0a25-3660-4c82-af0a-a48e4c5b9f7e.jpg" />(8)</p><p>and</p><p><img src="2-1220022\2dffa24b-4bac-4f65-a46f-38eb262a7c0f.jpg" /></p><p>for <img src="2-1220022\beeccfab-e4fb-455b-b304-27f18ce66bb9.jpg" />(9)</p><p>For the calculation of the rapidity distribution from the Equation (4) we can make use of a standard relation as given below:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.19228-formula50168"><label>(10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="2-1220022\385bc594-e96b-43be-b4b3-6e265f957ebc.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>For p + p collisions, the calculated rapidity distribution equation at RHIC-energy <img src="2-1220022\cc72f22d-79d7-4d0b-afc6-0cd299d4c167.jpg" /> = 200 GeV is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.19228-formula50169"><label>, (11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="2-1220022\2e31ad24-c284-4afa-b77b-3fee8b4d0675.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>In a similar fashion, the SCM-based rapidity distribution equation at LHC-energy <img src="2-1220022\42914e00-29ef-4e94-b6d7-d13879682054.jpg" /> = 7 TeV in p + p collisions has been given hereunder</p><disp-formula id="scirp.19228-formula50170"><label>. (12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="2-1220022\cd4e3225-e629-4af4-92e2-0cb1c39db56c.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula></sec><sec id="s4_2"><title>4.2. Invariant Yields in d + Au, Cu + Cu and Au + Au Collisions at RHIC-Energy</title><img src="2-1220022\91094475-46ef-4fd2-86a8-ff6141a41f8a.jpg" />= 200 GeV<p>From the expression (4), we arrive at the invariant yields for the J/Ψ production in <img src="2-1220022\669f61ce-d82f-404a-9c4a-cbf98712bad0.jpg" /> reactions for mid and forward-rapidities.</p><p><img src="2-1220022\10dfe737-6cce-4488-a390-9124f36d15ea.jpg" /></p><p>for <img src="2-1220022\a6ff306c-1f23-4027-81d0-3f241472b738.jpg" />(13)</p><p>and</p><p><img src="2-1220022\ce0ce8a0-2074-4ce3-845d-881f22b95f07.jpg" /></p><p>for <img src="2-1220022\e31fb0c6-29d4-41a7-b09f-d62a0d6ba4db.jpg" />(14)</p><p>For the case of Cu + Cu most central collisions (0% - 20%) at RHIC, the SCM-based calculated theoretical invariant yields for the rapidities <img src="2-1220022\47f295bd-265d-4f6b-8332-58bf8ce92367.jpg" /> and <img src="2-1220022\f9e8cf5f-5e05-4264-87f2-19f5444630b3.jpg" /> are given by the following equations respectively;</p><p><img src="2-1220022\6662c2f0-d3ba-4b50-a5d8-36ea28d6da33.jpg" /></p><p>for<img src="2-1220022\1355c1f7-6fd0-4b17-963a-a56a55e73b75.jpg" />, (15)</p><p>and</p><p><img src="2-1220022\f02c19e8-e816-4a09-9718-d79de5748c10.jpg" /></p><p>for<img src="2-1220022\801c27fc-44b5-452a-aa83-2549432ec9cc.jpg" />. (16)</p><p>Similarly, for Au + Au collisions at <img src="2-1220022\dd7e5dc5-c489-4573-b7ae-4301a23f4d62.jpg" /> = 200 GeV at RHIC, the equations of transverse momenta spectra for 0% - 20% centrality regions are given by the undernoted relations.</p><p><img src="2-1220022\1a1426a7-9db0-4bf8-b26e-d1a847b3ea31.jpg" /></p><p>for<img src="2-1220022\cda45aa5-35c9-41cc-8297-38b11e826976.jpg" />,(17)</p><p>and</p><p><img src="2-1220022\3ee0b07e-c760-42ab-87d9-df1f955d2ac5.jpg" /></p><p>for<img src="2-1220022\f15cd52f-9bf3-4281-8b01-e06b40c9a12a.jpg" />. (18)</p><p>For calculating the values of NR, in general, we have used the values of <img src="2-1220022\daed21d2-389a-4448-a7fc-e5a5389f318d.jpg" /> from Refs. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref11">11</xref>] and [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref15">15</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="s4_3"><title>4.3. The Nuclear Modification Factor R<sub>AB</sub></title><p>There is yet another very important observable called nuclear modification factor (NMF), denoted here by <img src="2-1220022\3951a537-1b90-43d1-aea5-ece2dd56a627.jpg" /> which for the production of J/Ψ is defined by [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref16">16</xref>]</p><disp-formula id="scirp.19228-formula50171"><label>(19)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="2-1220022\ba30b2f6-f057-4e07-8a9e-28f4140bd98c.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The SCM-based results on NMFs for Cu + Cu and Au + Au collisions for forward rapidities are deduced on the basis of Equation (6), Equation (15), Equation (17) and Equation (19) and they are given by the undernoted relations</p><disp-formula id="scirp.19228-formula50172"><label>, (20)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="2-1220022\82fba23e-72ea-410f-81d8-041c77d77cd8.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.19228-formula50173"><label>. (21)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="2-1220022\66dcb693-cf04-432b-a562-5c2e81184dc5.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>herein the value of <img src="2-1220022\6e5db797-3175-49a6-89cd-cd8306446498.jpg" /> to be used is <img src="2-1220022\93ab3e75-51a9-4e02-bb23-739d59380b1e.jpg" /> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref17">17</xref>] for Cu + Cu collisions and for Au + Au collisions it is taken as <img src="2-1220022\aaea7d09-7b2c-4a7d-b8ed-98668ed8bc06.jpg" />[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref18">18</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="s4_4"><title>4.4. Analysis of the Figures</title><p>In Figures 1(a) and (b), we have drawn the total inclusive cross-sections for the production of J/Ψ-mesons in p + p collisions in different rapidities at RHIC and LHC energies <img src="2-1220022\4c5eb366-c345-4126-8eee-66cf10ab71c6.jpg" /> = 200 GeV and 7 TeV respectively. The solid lines in the figures are depicting the SCM modelbased results with the help of the Equations (6)-(9) while the experimental measurements are taken from Ref. [19, 20] respectively.</p><p>In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> we have plotted the rapidity distributions for J/Ψ-production in p + p collisions at <img src="2-1220022\da9a4e97-2aa0-4f66-acb7-a18f6d0f973b.jpg" /> = 200 GeV. Data in the figure are taken from Ref. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref21">21</xref>] and the line shows the SCM-based output.</p><p>Similarly, in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>, we have drawn the rapidity distribution <img src="2-1220022\bd389ef2-f737-4b0a-a50b-96b7e7015fad.jpg" /> for J/Ψ production in p + p collisions at <img src="2-1220022\a2b04b2e-3e70-459c-a77b-6ecd1de02c5a.jpg" /> = 7 TeV as function of y. The solid lines depict the SCM-based results [Equation (12)] and the points indicate the experimental measurements [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref22">22</xref>].</p><p>In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref>, we have drawn the solid lines depicting the SCM-based results for invariant yields for J/Ψ production in d + Au collisions at <img src="2-1220022\b068ef4e-d460-4265-a5ff-c2635e085c40.jpg" /> = 200 GeV with the help of two Equations (13) and (14) against the experimental measurements [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref15">15</xref>].</p><p>The experimental results for the invariant yields of J/Ψ production as a function of transverse momenta for Cu + Cu collisions at <img src="2-1220022\5fb9c025-edb5-47c4-9154-c9ed16348eae.jpg" /> = 200 GeV are taken from Ref. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref16">16</xref>] at centrality 0% - 20% and are plotted in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref>. The solid lines in the figure show the SCM-induced results.</p><p>In the <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>, the solid lines are the plots of SCMbased invariant yields vs. <img src="2-1220022\19b5490f-7464-42d5-af36-cf88b7a035cf.jpg" />as described by Equations (17) and (18) at forward and mid-rapidities for Au + Au collisions at <img src="2-1220022\479b3624-b5e5-4767-aa94-6b4641a445f8.jpg" /> = 200 GeV, while the dotted curve in the Fig. shows results of coalescence model [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref12">12</xref>]. The experimental data points in the <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref> for the invariant yields of J/Ψ production as a function of transverse momenta at centrality values 0% - 20% and at the rapidities <img src="2-1220022\0e7f9adb-1ba1-4f51-b368-1464188487e7.jpg" /> and <img src="2-1220022\281f94e4-5a78-49a1-a117-db480bef7a5f.jpg" /> respectively are taken from the PHENIX Collaboration [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref15">15</xref>].</p><p>In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>(a), we plot <img src="2-1220022\878fb13f-9e6d-4165-825d-c3d6a0d4f8b8.jpg" /> vs. <img src="2-1220022\aaee7e00-1462-4faa-96e5-3073d776dece.jpg" />for 0% - 20% central region in Cu + Cu and Au + Au collisions at <img src="2-1220022\0d97c32d-895e-4905-88df-c4a3107ec5ac.jpg" /> = 200 GeV. The solid lines in the figure show the SCM-based results (Equations (20) and (21)) against the experimentally measured results [15,16]. The dotted lines in the figure. represent the double Color Filtering approach [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref13">13</xref>].</p><p>And in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>(b), we plot <img src="2-1220022\7e8bd6d0-0031-41f2-a0fd-7a255c9f4c3f.jpg" /> vs. <img src="2-1220022\b0b00a97-529e-4ab0-94bd-ff136dab3e40.jpg" />for 0% - 20% central region in Au + Au collisions at <img src="2-1220022\e7c9f1b6-df7b-4980-864b-3b336b530ae4.jpg" /> =</p><p>200 GeV and for Pb + Pb collisions at <img src="2-1220022\2b04d464-a83b-4572-b2b8-7fc1d7b70f8f.jpg" /> = 2.76 TeV. The solid lines in the figure show the SCM-based calculations for different part&gt;’s. The Values of part&gt;’s are taken from Ref. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref17">17</xref>]. The the experimentally measured results from Refs. [11,23] respectively. The dashed lines in the figure. represent the Gluon Saturation approach [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.19228-ref11">11</xref>].</p></sec></sec><sec id="s5"><title>5. Summary and Outlook</title><p>Let us first concentrate on what we have achieved here: 1) The features related to p<sub>T</sub>—spectra for J/Ψ production in some particle-particle and nuclear collisions at various high energies have been reproduced quite successfully; 2) The characteristics of rapidity spectra in p + p collisions at TeV energies have been brought out somewhat modestly satisfactorily; 3) The features of nuclear modification factors in Cu + Cu, Au + Au and Pb + Pb reactions at RHIC and LHC energies have also been brought out with the help of the applied model. Besides, some of our model-based results have also been compared with the performances on the same observables by some competing models of “standard” variety. And these comparisons with data and the results obtained by some other models reveal that SCM-based results describe the features of the data, at least, not inferior to the performance by the other approaches grounded on the “Standard” model ilk. In the past such were the recurrent observations made by us valid for many other obsevables measured in the various high statistics high energy particle and nuclear experiments.</p><p>Thus, summing up our past experiences and consider-</p><p>ing the weightage of the results reported here, we are forced to comment finally that this work essentially represents a case of paradigm shift in the domain of particle theory, as we have eschewed the conventional views of <img src="2-1220022\ef1d9a96-97cb-4686-a1d0-09af39cf119e.jpg" /> approach to J/Ψ production in the “standard” framework. And this is just the reflection of our radical views about the particle structure and the nature of particle collisions. Obviously we obtain the fair agreement with data on some observables without inductions of 1) any QGP concept; 2) any prognosis of suppression or enhancement of J/Ψ-production. The production of J/Ψ- particles resembles all other hadrons.</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>6. Acknowledgements</title><p>The authors would like to express their thankful gratitude to the learned Referee for his/her valuable remarks and constructive suggestions in improving the earlier draft of the manuscript.</p></sec><sec id="s7"><title>REFERENCES</title></sec><sec id="s8"><title>NOTES</title></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.19228-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">T. Matsui and H. 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