Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2010-12-08
Nuclear Physics A, Volume 855, Issue 1, 1 April 2011, Pages 141-148
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
Proceedings for HardProbe 2010 conference held at Eilat, Israel in Oct 10-15, 2010
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.02.030
Electro-magnetic probes such as dileptons and photons are strong probes to investigate the thermodynamical state of the early stages of collisions since they leave the system unscathed. The PHENIX experiment has measured both photons and dileptons in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions. An excess of dilepton yield over the expected hadronic contribution is seen in 0.2-0.8\,GeV/$c^2$ in Au+Au collisions, which is prominent in lower $p_T$ and most central. Direct photons are measured through their internal conversion to electron pairs. We saw a large enhancement in Au+Au collisions over p+p yield scaled by the number of binary collisions. It turned out from the latest results on d+Au collisions that this enhancement is not explainable by a nuclear effect.
for the PHENIX Collaboration
Sakaguchi Takao
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