Charmonium Suppression in Nuclear Collisions

Abstract

Measurements of $\psi$ and ${\psi }^{\prime }$ production from experiment NA50 at the CERN SPS are compared to predictions based on a hadronic model of charmonium suppression by Vogt and myself. Data on centrality dependence and total cross sections are in good accord with our predictions. Uncertainties in theoretical quanities such as NA50's $L$ parameter are discussed.

Comments: Invited talk at the "RHIC Summer Studies '96", Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, USA. 11 pages, revtex, 8 figures, epsf