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Observation of Direct Photons in Central 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 of direct photons in central collisions is extracted as a function of transverse momentum in the interval 0.5 < p_T < 4 GeV/c. A significant...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, M.M., Agnihotri, A., Ahammed, Z., Angelis, A.L.S., Antonenko, V., Arefiev, 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-Bosing, C., 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., Mora, M.-J., Morrison, D., 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., Poblotzki, U.v., 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., Sorensen, 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., Pijll, E.C.v.d., Eijndhoven, N.v., Nieuwenhuizen, G.J.v., Vinogradov, A., Viyogi, Y.P., Vodopianov, A., Voros, S., Wyslouch, B., Yagi, K., Yokota, Y., Young, G.R.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2000
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3595
http://cds.cern.ch/record/441976
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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 of direct photons in central collisions is extracted as a function of transverse momentum in the interval 0.5 < p_T < 4 GeV/c. A significant direct photon signal, compared to statistical and systematical errors, is seen at p_T > 1.5 GeV/c. The results constitute the first observation of direct photons in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions which could be significant for diagnosis of quark gluon plasma formation.