Beam Energy and Centrality Dependence of Direct- Photon Emission from Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions (CROSBI ID 271515)
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Adare, A. ; ... ; Makek, Mihael ; ... ; Zou, L.
PHENIX Collaboration
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Beam Energy and Centrality Dependence of Direct- Photon Emission from Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
The PHENIX collaboration presents first measurements of low-momentum (0.4<pT<3 GeV/c) direct-photon yields from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=39 and 62.4 GeV. For both beam energies the direct-photon yields are substantially enhanced with respect to expectations from prompt processes, similar to the yields observed in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200. Analyzing the photon yield as a function of the experimental observable dNch/dη reveals that the low-momentum (>1 GeV/c) direct-photon yield dNγdir/dη is a smooth function of dNch/dη and can be well described as proportional to (dNch/dη)α with α≈1.25. This scaling behavior holds for a wide range of beam energies at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider, for centrality selected samples, as well as for different A+A collision systems. At a given beam energy, the scaling also holds for high pT (>5 GeV/c), but when results from different collision energies are compared, an additional sqrt(s_NN)-dependent multiplicative factor is needed to describe the integrated- direct-photon yield.
Au+Au collisions, beam energy scan, quark-gluon plasma, direct photons, PHENIX, RHIC
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Podaci o izdanju
123 (2)
2019.
022301
10
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0031-9007
1079-7114
10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.022301