Direct Photon Production in 158 A GeV $^{208}Pb+^{208}Pb$ collisions

A measurement of direct photon production in 208Pb + 208Pb collisions at 158 A GeV has been carried out in the CERN WA98 experiment. The invariant yield or upper limit of direct photons as a function of transverse momentum in the interval 0.5 < p_T < 4 GeV/c is presented. A significant direct...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, M.M., Agnihotri, A., Ahammed, Z., Angelis, A.L.S., Antonenko, V., Areev, V., Astakhov, V., Avdeitchikov, V., Awes, T.C., Baba, P.V.K.S., Badyal, S.K., Barlag, C., Bathe, S., Batiounia, B., Bernier, T., Bhalla, K.B., Bhatia, V.S., Blume, C., Bock, R., Bohne, E.M., Borocz, Z., Bucher, D., Buijs, A., Busching, H., Carlen, L., Chalyshev, V., Chattopadhyay, S., Cherbatchev, R., Chujo, T., Claussen, A., Das, A.C., Decowski, M.P., Delagrange, H., Djordjadze, V., Donni, P., Doubovik, I., Dutt, S., Dutta Majumdar, M.R., El Chenawi, K., Eliseev, S., Enosawa, K., Foka, P., Fokin, S., Ganti, M.S., Garpman, S., Gavrishchuk, O., Geurts, F.J.M., Ghosh, T.K., Glasow, R., Gupta, S.K., Guskov, B., Gustafsson, H.A., Gutbrod, H.H., Higuchi, R., Hrivnacova, I., Ippolitov, M., Kalechofsky, H., Kamermans, R., Kampert, K.H., Karadjev, K., Karpio, K., Kato, S., Kees, S., Klein-Boesing, Christian, Knoche, S., Kolb, B.W., Kosarev, I., Koutcheryaev, I., Krumpel, T., Kugler, A., Kulinich, P., Kurata, M., Kurita, K., Kuzmin, N., Langbein, I., Lebedev, A., Lee, Y.Y., Lohner, H., Luquin, L., Mahapatra, D.P., Manko, V., Martin, M., Martinez, G., Maximov, A., Mgebrichvili, G., Miake, Y., Mir, Md.F., Mishra, G.C., Miyamoto, Y., Mohanty, B., Morrison, Douglas R.O., Mukhopadhyay, D.S., Naef, H., Nandi, B.K., Nayak, S.K., Nayak, T.K., Neumaier, S., Nianine, A., Nikitine, V., Nikolaev, S., Nilsson, P., Nishimura, S., Nomokonov, P., Nystrand, J., Obenshain, F.E., Oskarsson, A., Otterlund, I., Pachr, M., Pavliouk, S., Peitzmann, T., Petracek, V., Pinganaud, W., Plasil, F., von Poblotzki, U., Purschke, M.L., Rak, J., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ramamurthy, V.S., Rao, N.K., Retiere, F., Reygers, K., Roland, G., Rosselet, L., Roufanov, I., Roy, C., Rubio, J.M., Sako, H., Sambyal, S.S., Santo, R., Sato, S., Schlagheck, H., Schmidt, H.R., Schutz, Y., Shabratova, G., Shah, T.H., Sibiriak, I., Siemiarczuk, T., Silvermyr, D., Sinha, B.C., Slavine, N., Soderstrom, K., Solomey, N., Sood, G., Srensen, S.P., Stankus, P., Stefanek, G., Steinberg, P., Stenlund, E., Stuken, D., Sumbera, M., Svensson, T., Trivedi, M.D., Tsvetkov, A., Tykarski, L., Urbahn, J., van de Pijll, E.C., van Eijndhoven, N., van Nieuwenhuizen, G.J., Vinogradov, A., Viyogi, Y.P., Vodopianov, A.S., Voros, S., Wyslouch, B., Yagi, K., Yokota, Y., Young, G.R.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2001
Materias:
Nuclear Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/441833
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Sumario:A measurement of direct photon production in 208Pb + 208Pb collisions at 158 A GeV has been carried out in the CERN WA98 experiment. The invariant yield or upper limit of direct photons as a function of transverse momentum in the interval 0.5 < p_T < 4 GeV/c is presented. A significant direct photon excess is observed at p_T > 1.5 GeV/c in central collisions. The results are compared to proton-induced results and to theoretical predictions. Implications for the dynamics of high-energy heavy-ion collisions are discussed.

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