Charmonium-nucleon dissociation cross sections in the quark model

J. P. Hilbert, N. Black, T. Barnes, E. S. Swanson
2007 Physical Review C  
Charmonium dissociation cross sections due to flavor-exchange charmonium-baryon scattering are computed in the constituent quark model. We present results for inelastic J/ψ N and η_c N scattering amplitudes and cross sections into 46 final channels, including final states composed of various combinations of D, D^*, Σ_c, and Λ_c. These results are relevant to experimental searches for the deconfined phase of quark matter, and may be useful in identifying the contribution of initial cc̅
more » ... to the open-charm final states observed at RHIC through the characteristic flavor ratios of certain channels. These results are also of interest to possible charmonium-nucleon bound states.
doi:10.1103/physrevc.75.064907 fatcat:53yty5n6mzhyvjpnabjmtohbr4