Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2008-05-19
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
4 pages, 4 figures. Invited talk at the XLIIIth Rencontres de Moriond (QCD and High Energy Interactions), La Thuile, Vallee d'
Scientific paper
The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has been carried out to investigate the properties of QGP. Di-electron yields in p+p and Au+Au collisions have been measured. An enhancement of the yield over a hadronic cocktail calculation is clearly seen for $p_{T} < 1.0 $GeV/$c$ and $150 < m_{ee} < 750 $MeV/$c^{2}$ in Au+Au collisions, while the result in p+p collisions is consistent with the calculation. The fraction of the virtual direct photon component to the di-electron yield is measured from a shape analysis using the di-electron mass distributions for $1.0 < p_{T} < 5.0 $GeV/$c$ and $m_{ee} < 300 $MeV/$c^{2}$, and the real direct photon spectra are deduced from the fractions obtained for p+p and Au+Au collisions. An excess of the direct photon yield above a binary-scaled p+p result is seen in Au+Au collisions. The excess is fitted with an exponential function with an inverse slope parameter of $221 \pm 23 \pm 18 $MeV.
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Yamaguchi Yorito
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