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Measurement of direct photons in Au+Au collisions at √s NN=200GeV

  • S. Afanasiev
  • , C. Aidala
  • , N. N. Ajitanand
  • , Y. Akiba
  • , A. Al-Jamel
  • , J. Alexander
  • , K. Aoki
  • , L. Aphecetche
  • , R. Armendariz
  • , S. H. Aronson
  • , R. Averbeck
  • , T. C. Awes
  • , B. Azmoun
  • , V. Babintsev
  • , A. Baldisseri
  • , K. N. Barish
  • , P. D. Barnes
  • , B. Bassalleck
  • , S. Bathe
  • , S. Batsouli
  • V. Baublis, F. Bauer, A. Bazilevsky, S. Belikov, R. Bennett, Y. Berdnikov, M. T. Bjorndal, J. G. Boissevain, H. Borel, K. Boyle, M. L. Brooks, D. S. Brown, D. Bucher, H. Buesching, V. Bumazhnov, G. Bunce, J. M. Burward-Hoy, S. Butsyk, S. Campbell, J. S. Chai, S. Chernichenko, C. Y. Chi, J. Chiba, M. Chiu, I. J. Choi, T. Chujo, V. Cianciolo, C. R. Cleven, Y. Cobigo, B. A. Cole, M. P. Comets, M. Connors, P. Constantin, M. Csanád, T. Csörgo, T. Dahms, K. Das, G. David, H. Delagrange, A. Denisov, D. D'Enterria, A. Deshpande, E. J. Desmond, O. Dietzsch, A. Dion, J. L. Drachenberg, O. Drapier, A. Drees, A. K. Dubey, A. Durum, V. Dzhordzhadze, Y. V. Efremenko, J. Egdemir, A. Enokizono, H. En'Yo, B. Espagnon, S. Esumi, D. E. Fields, F. Fleuret, S. L. Fokin, B. Forestier, Z. Fraenkel, J. E. Frantz, A. Franz, A. D. Frawley, Y. Fukao, S. Y. Fung, S. Gadrat, F. Gastineau, M. Germain, A. Glenn, M. Gonin, J. Gosset, Y. Goto, R. Granier De Cassagnac, N. Grau, S. V. Greene, M. Grosse Perdekamp, T. Gunji, H. A. Gustafsson, T. Hachiya, A. Hadj Henni, J. S. Haggerty, M. N. Hagiwara, H. Hamagaki, H. Harada, E. P. Hartouni, K. Haruna, M. Harvey, E. Haslum, K. Hasuko, R. Hayano, X. He, M. Heffner, T. K. Hemmick, J. M. Heuser, H. Hiejima, J. C. Hill, R. Hobbs, M. Holmes, W. Holzmann, K. Homma, B. Hong, T. Horaguchi, M. G. Hur, T. Ichihara, H. Iinuma, K. Imai, J. Imrek, M. Inaba, D. Isenhower, L. Isenhower, M. Ishihara, T. Isobe, M. Issah, A. Isupov, B. V. Jacak, J. Jia, J. Jin, O. Jinnouchi, B. M. Johnson, K. S. Joo, D. Jouan, F. Kajihara, S. Kametani, N. Kamihara, M. Kaneta, J. H. Kang, T. Kawagishi, A. V. Kazantsev, S. Kelly, A. Khanzadeev, D. J. Kim, E. Kim, Y. S. Kim, E. Kinney, A. Kiss, E. Kistenev, A. Kiyomichi, C. Klein-Boesing, L. Kochenda, V. Kochetkov, B. Komkov, M. Konno, D. Kotchetkov, A. Kozlov, P. J. Kroon, G. J. Kunde, N. Kurihara, K. Kurita, M. J. Kweon, Y. Kwon, G. S. Kyle, R. Lacey, J. G. Lajoie, A. Lebedev, Y. Le Bornec, S. Leckey, D. M. Lee, M. K. Lee, M. J. Leitch, M. A.L. Leite, X. H. Li, H. Lim, A. Litvinenko, M. X. Liu, C. F. Maguire, Y. I. Makdisi, A. Malakhov, M. D. Malik, V. I. Manko, H. Masui, F. Matathias, M. C. McCain, P. L. McGaughey, Y. Miake, T. E. Miller, A. Milov, S. Mioduszewski, G. C. Mishra, J. T. Mitchell, D. P. Morrison, J. M. Moss, T. V. Moukhanova, D. Mukhopadhyay, J. Murata, S. Nagamiya, Y. Nagata, J. L. Nagle, M. Naglis, T. Nakamura, J. Newby, M. Nguyen, B. E. Norman, A. S. Nyanin, J. Nystrand, E. O'Brien, C. A. Ogilvie, H. Ohnishi, I. D. Ojha, K. Okada, O. O. Omiwade, A. Oskarsson, I. Otterlund, K. Ozawa, R. Pak, D. Pal, A. P.T. Palounek, V. Pantuev, V. Papavassiliou, J. Park, W. J. Park, S. F. Pate, H. Pei, J. C. Peng, H. Pereira, V. Peresedov, D. Yu Peressounko, C. Pinkenburg, R. P. Pisani, M. L. Purschke, A. K. Purwar, H. Qu, J. Rak, I. Ravinovich, K. F. Read, M. Reuter, K. Reygers, V. Riabov, Y. Riabov, G. Roche, A. Romana, M. Rosati, S. S.E. Rosendahl, P. Rosnet, P. Rukoyatkin, V. L. Rykov, S. S. Ryu, B. Sahlmueller, N. Saito, T. Sakaguchi, S. Sakai, V. Samsonov, H. D. Sato, S. Sato, S. Sawada, V. Semenov, R. Seto, D. Sharma, T. K. Shea, I. Shein, T. A. Shibata, K. Shigaki, M. Shimomura, T. Shohjoh, K. Shoji, A. Sickles, C. L. Silva, D. Silvermyr, K. S. Sim, C. P. Singh, V. Singh, S. Skutnik, W. C. Smith, A. Soldatov, R. A. Soltz, W. E. Sondheim, S. P. Sorensen, I. V. Sourikova, F. Staley, P. W. Stankus, E. Stenlund, M. Stepanov, A. Ster, S. P. Stoll, T. Sugitate, C. Suire, J. P. Sullivan, J. Sziklai, T. Tabaru, S. Takagi, E. M. Takagui, A. Taketani, K. H. Tanaka, Y. Tanaka, K. Tanida, M. J. Tannenbaum, A. Taranenko, P. Tarján, T. L. Thomas, M. Togawa, J. Tojo, H. Torii, R. S. Towell, V. N. Tram, I. Tserruya, Y. Tsuchimoto, S. K. Tuli, H. Tydesjö, N. Tyurin, C. Vale, H. Valle, H. W. Van Hecke, J. Velkovska, R. Vértesi, A. A. Vinogradov, E. Vznuzdaev, M. Wagner, X. R. Wang, Y. Watanabe, J. Wessels, S. N. White, N. Willis, D. Winter, C. L. Woody, M. Wysocki, W. Xie, A. Yanovich, S. Yokkaichi, G. R. Young, I. Younus, I. E. Yushmanov, W. A. Zajc, O. Zaudtke, C. Zhang, J. Zimányi, L. Zolin
  • Abilene Christian University
  • Columbia University
  • Stony Brook University
  • RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
  • Riken BNL Research Center
  • New Mexico State University
  • Kyoto University
  • Université de Nantes
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Kurchatov Institute
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • University of California, Riverside
  • MST-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • University of New Mexico
  • Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
  • Iowa State University
  • St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University
  • University of Münster
  • Cyclotron Application Laboratory
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
  • Yonsei University
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Georgia State University
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Eötvös Loránd University
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Florida State University
  • University of São Paulo
  • Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
  • University of Tennessee
  • Hiroshima University
  • University of Tsukuba
  • Kurchatov Institute
  • Université Blaise Pascal
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • University of Tokyo
  • Lund University
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Korea University
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • University of Debrecen
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • Myongji University
  • Waseda University
  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • Seoul National University
  • Rikkyo University
  • Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Banaras Hindu University
  • Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science

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Abstract

We report the measurement of direct photons at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at √s NN=200GeV. The direct photon signal was extracted for the transverse momentum range of 4GeV/c<p T<22GeV/ c, using a statistical method to subtract decay photons from the inclusive photon sample. The direct photon nuclear modification factor R AA was calculated as a function of p T for different Au+Au collision centralities using the measured p+p direct photon spectrum and compared to theoretical predictions. R AA was found to be consistent with unity for all centralities over the entire measured p T range. Theoretical models that account for modifications of initial direct photon production due to modified parton distribution functions in Au and the different isospin composition of the nuclei predict a modest change of R AA from unity. They are consistent with the data. Models with compensating effects of the quark-gluon plasma on high-energy photons, such as suppression of jet-fragmentation photons and induced-photon bremsstrahlung from partons traversing the medium, are also consistent with this measurement.

Original languageEnglish
Article number152302
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume109
Issue number15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Oct 2012

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