Direct Photons in Nuclear Collisions at FAIR Energies

Details Direct Photons in Nuclear Collisions at FAIR Energies Direct Photons in Nuclear Collisions at FAIR Energies

2008-01-09

arxiv.org/abs/0801.1425v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

9 pages, 5 figures, Talk at the session of Russian Academy of Sciences, ITEP, Moscow, 26 - 30 November 2007

Scientific paper

10.1134/S1063778809030168

Using the extrapolation of existing data estimations of prompt photon production at FAIR energies have been made. At $y=y_{c.m.}$ the rapidity density of prompt photons with $p_{t}>$ 1.5 GeV/c per central Au+Au event at 25 AGeV is estimated as $\sim 10^{-4}$ . With the planed beam intensity $10^{9}$ per second and 1% interaction probability, for 10% of most central events one can expect the prompt photon rate $\sim 10^{2}$ photons per second. Direct photons from the hadron scenario of ion collisions generated by the Hadron-String-Dynamics (HSD) transport approach with implemented meson scatterings $\pi\rho\to\pi\gamma, \pi\pi\to\rho\gamma$ have been analyzed. Photons from short-living resonances (e.g. $\omega \to \pi^{0} \gamma$) decaying during the dense phase of the collision should be considered as direct photons. They contribute significantly in the direct photon spectrum at $p_{t}=0.5 - 1$ GeV/c. At the FAIR energy 25 AGeV in Au+Au central collisions the HSD generator predicts, as a lower estimate, $\gamma_{direct}/\gamma_{\pi^{0}} \simeq$ 0.5% in the region $p_{t}=0.5 - 1$ GeV/c. At $p_{t}=1.5 - 2$ GeV/c $\gamma_{prompt}/\gamma_{\pi^{0}} \simeq$ 2%. Thermal direct photons have been evaluated with the Bjorken Hydro-Dynamics (BHD) model. The BHD spectra differ strongly from the HSD predictions. The direct photon spectrum is very sensitive to the initial temperature parameter $T_{0}$ of the model. The 10 MeV increase in the $T_{0}$ value leads to $\sim$ 2 times higher photon yield.

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