Centrality dependence of low-momentum direct-photon production in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.91.064904" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.91.064904</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.91.064904" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevC.91.064904</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Centrality dependence of low-momentum direct-photon production in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV
Original language description
The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has measured the centrality dependence of the direct photon yield from Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV down to pT=0.4 GeV/c. Photons are detected via photon conversions to e+e− pairs and an improved technique is applied that minimizes the systematic uncertainties that usually limit direct photon measurements, in particular at low pT. We find an excess of direct photons above the Ncoll-scaled yield measured in p+p collisions. This excess yield is well described by an exponential distribution with an inverse slope of about 240MeV/c in the pT range 0.6–2.0 GeV/c. While the shape of the pT distribution is independent of centrality within the experimental uncertainties, the yield increases rapidly with increasing centrality, scaling approximately with Npartα, where α=1.38±0.03(stat)±0.07(syst).
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10303 - Particles and field physics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Physical Review C
ISSN
2469-9985
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
91
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
1-11
UT code for WoS article
000355648500003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84935901818