NONPERTURBATIVE QUARKONIUM DISSOCIATION IN HADRONIC MATTER

We calculate the dissociation rates of quarkonium ground states by tun nelling and direct thermal activation to the continuum, For hadronic m atter at temperatures T less than or equal to 0.2 GeV, neither of thes e mechanisms leads to a sufficiently large dissociation to explain the experimentally observed suppression of charmonium. Dissociation by se quential excitation to excited energy levels, although OZI-forbidden, requires further analysis.