Matsui and Satz: J/psi suppression by quark-gluon plasma formation

What changed

Proposed color-screening suppression of J/psi formation as a plasma indicator.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact two-author 1986 theoretical proposal. It is not a direct observation, does not make suppression a unique diagnostic under every later experimental condition and does not absorb subsequent quarkonium phenomenology.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author 1986 theoretical proposal. It is not a direct observation, does not make suppression a unique diagnostic under every later experimental condition and does not absorb subsequent quarkonium phenomenology.

Contributors

• T. Matsui · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Helmut Satz · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• INSPIRE record for J/psi suppression proposal
• CERN record for J/psi suppression by quark-gluon plasma

Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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