Production of Quarkonia at RHIC

Abstract

The production of different quarkonium states provides unique insight to the hot and cold nuclear matter effects in the strongly interacting medium that is formed in high energy heavy ion collisions. While LHC explores the energy frontier, RHIC has a broad physics program to explore the nuclear modification at different energies in a wide range of systems. Some of the most interesting recent results on $J/ψ$ and $Υ$ production in p+p, d+Au and A+A collisions from PHENIX and STAR are summarized in this work.

Writeup of the talk on the "Joint Wigner-CCNU High-Energy Heavy-Ion Balaton Workshop 2015", Tihany, Hungary. To be published in the Gribov 85 memorial issue "Exploring Quantum Field Theory". 8 pages, 8 figures