Nonprompt direct-photon production in Au + Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.109.044912" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.109.044912</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.109.044912" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevC.109.044912</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Nonprompt direct-photon production in Au + Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV

Original language description

The measurement of the direct-photon spectrum from Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV is presented by the PHENIX Collaboration using the external-photon-conversion technique for 0%–93% central collisions in a transverse-momentum (pT) range of 0.8–10 GeV/c. An excess of direct photons, above prompt-photon production from hard-scattering processes, is observed for pT<6GeV/c. Nonprompt direct photons are measured by subtracting the prompt component, which is estimated as Ncoll-scaled direct photons from p+p collisions at 200 GeV, from the direct-photon spectrum. Results are obtained for 0.8<pT<6.0GeV/c and suggest that the spectrum has an increasing inverse slope from ≈0.2 to 0.4 GeV/c with increasing pT, which indicates a possible sensitivity of the measurement to photons from earlier stages of the evolution of the collision. In addition, like the direct-photon production, the pT-integrated nonprompt direct-photon yields also follow a power-law scaling behavior as a function of collision-system size. The exponent, α, for the nonprompt component is found to be consistent with 1.1 with no apparent pT dependence.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Physical Review C

ISSN

2469-9985

e-ISSN

2469-9993

Volume of the periodical

109

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

044912

UT code for WoS article

001261381900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85190809774