1. Photoproduction of J/ψ and of high mass e+e− in ultra-peripheral Au + Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV
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T. L. Thomas, R. Vértesi, Masamichi Ishihara, Kensuke Homma, J. M. Heuser, Ryugo S. Hayano, J. Gosset, M. Gonin, J. P. Sullivan, S. Chernichenko, Y. Riabov, Minghui Liu, Kenta Shigaki, H. Lim, K. Hasuko, B. Bassalleck, M. Nguyen, A. S. Nyanin, Hiroyuki Okada, K. Kurita, M. Heffner, Kenneth Francis Read, T. Ichihara, H. Pereira, J. Murata, J. Chiba, M. Konno, J. M. Burward-Hoy, Joakim Nystrand, Eva Haslum, P. Tarján, G. C. Mishra, E. J. Desmond, Takao Sakaguchi, M. Togawa, S. Kelly, V. Bumazhnov, M. P. Comets, J. Park, Y. J. Kwon, W. C. Smith, Florian Bauer, S. Bathe, S. Yokkaichi, N. N. Ajitanand, C. Klein-Boesing, Y. Tsuchimoto, A. D. Frawley, Robert F. Hobbs, M. Rosati, T. Tabaru, J. L. Drachenberg, Y. Berdnikov, I. E. Yushmanov, Eun-Hee Kim, S. Y. Fung, M. K. Lee, Takahiro Nakamura, Alexei Khanzadeev, I. Tserruya, T. V. Moukhanova, S. H. Aronson, Y. Akiba, S. Nagamiya, J. T. Mitchell, S. Kametani, Senta Greene, S. P. Sorensen, Yu. Efremenko, B. Komkov, Hans-Åke Gustafsson, A. A. Vinogradov, K. Das, Henrik Tydesjö, T. Shohjoh, A. Ster, W. Holzmann, Kazuhiro Tanaka, C. A. Ogilvie, Jiangyong Jia, Tadaaki Isobe, Vladislav Manko, Evert Anders Stenlund, Debashish Pal, V. Singh, J. S. Chai, Norio Saito, T. K. Hemmick, M. A. L. Leite, A. Durum, J. H. Kang, J. S. Haggerty, S. Sawada, E. P. Hartouni, A. Hadj Henni, J. Newby, G. Roche, Yasuo Miake, Maya Hachiya Shimomura, B. E. Norman, Y. Tanaka, A. Franz, Y. Goto, John Hill, H. A. Torii, L. Kochenda, Y. I. Makdisi, A. Romana, E. O'Brien, P. L. McGaughey, D. S. Brown, M. N. Hagiwara, Wei Xie, Shingo Sakai, C. L. Woody, S. Gadrat, Toru Sugitate, T. Kawagishi, B. Azmoun, J. G. Lajoie, T. Hachiya, David D'Enterria, R. A. Soltz, H. Borel, A. V. Kazantsev, C. Vale, Ingvar Otterlund, B. Espagnon, Klaus Johannes Reygers, Anders Nils Erik Oskarsson, I. J. Choi, Christine Angela Aidala, M. J. Tannenbaum, S. Batsouli, M. Grosse Perdekamp, V. Babintsev, L. D. Isenhower, Hiroaki Ohnishi, T. K. Shea, R. P. Pisani, A. Taranenko, D. Mukhopadhyay, M. J. Kweon, G. S. Kyle, François Fleuret, N. Kamihara, F. Matathias, R. Armendariz, O. Dietzsch, H. Valle, D. Bucher, N. Willis, D. E. Fields, I. V. Sourikova, Osamu Jinnouchi, Y. Le Bornec, B. V. Jacak, S. V. Afanasiev, L. Aphecetche, James Alexander, Matthew G. Reuter, A. Drees, T. C. Awes, Kyoichiro Ozawa, R. Averbeck, Byung-Sik Hong, Nikolay Tyurin, M. C. McCain, J. G. Boissevain, A. Bazilevsky, M. N. Wagner, Masashi Kaneta, B. Forestier, M. T. Bjorndal, I. D. Ojha, Alexander Malakhov, A. K. Purwar, Julia Velkovska, J. Egdemir, A. P.T. Palounek, H. Pei, M. Wysocki, D. Winter, D. Silvermyr, D. Yu Peressounko, P. Rosnet, Y. Fukao, Xingguo Li, Alexandre Lebedev, D. M. Lee, L. S. Zolin, C. Pinkenburg, Johannes Peter Wessels, M. Csanad, S. P. Stoll, W. J. Park, R. S. Towell, S. S.E. Rosendahl, G. Bunce, P. D. Barnes, A. Yanovich, M. Stepanov, Akio Kiyomichi, C. Zhang, Hirohiko Sato, A. Dion, M. Issah, S. F. Pate, D. Jouan, Margaret Harvey, V-N. Tram, S. N. White, N. Kurihara, M. D. Malik, E. Vznuzdaev, S. K. Tuli, Viktor Riabov, Motoi Inaba, M. G. Hur, C. Y. Chi, Charles Maguire, S. Leckey, C. R. Cleven, W. E. Sondheim, V. Papavassiliou, K. Boyle, P. A. Rukoyatkin, S. Belikov, K. S. Joo, W. A. Zajc, Josh Moss, J. E. Frantz, H. W. Van Hecke, V. Baublis, A. Denisov, V. Cianciolo, Jen-Chieh Peng, E. Kistenev, P. J. Kroon, Sergey Fokin, C. P. Singh, T. Horaguchi, B. M. Johnson, H. Harada, S. Esumi, A. Kiss, D. Sharma, A. Glenn, A. Taketani, Xiong Wang, Z. Conesa del Valle, K. S. Sim, Steven E. Skutnik, Henner Buesching, Dong Jo Kim, Martin Purschke, F. Gastineau, V. L. Rykov, T. Dahms, A. Isupov, C. Suire, H. Qu, D. Kotchetkov, Hideki Hamagaki, K. Aoki, G. David, Junji Tojo, Z. Fraenkel, Alexander Milov, N. Grau, J. Sziklai, K. Shoji, I. Ravinovich, O. Drapier, P. W. Stankus, E. R. Kinney, Brian Cole, D. P. Morrison, S. Campbell, V. E. Semenov, J. Zimányi, Tatsuya Chujo, Y. Nagata, H. Hiejima, S. S. Ryu, Saskia Mioduszewski, K. Imai, R. Bennett, Ahmed Al-Jamel, J. Jin, E. M. Takagui, O. Zaudtke, Jan Rak, R. Lacey, R. Granier de Cassagnac, Y. Cobigo, Anne Marie Sickles, G. R. Young, M. Naglis, C. L. Silva, V. S. Pantuev, Susumu Sato, S. Butsyk, Vladimir Samsonov, Tamas Ferenc Csorgo, K. Okada, J. L. Nagle, B. Sahlmueller, H. En'yo, P. Constantin, M. J. Leitch, F. Staley, A. Deshpande, Y. Watanabe, I. Younus, A. Soldatov, K. Tanida, V. I. Kochetkov, Gerd Joachim Kunde, I. Shein, X. He, O. O. Omiwade, V. Peresedov, H. Masui, A. K. Dubey, S. Takagi, K. N. Barish, Taku Gunji, F. Kajihara, H. Delagrange, A. Baldisseri, Y. S. Kim, T. E. Miller, A. Enokizono, M. Holmes, M. Chiu, T. A. Shibata, M. L. Brooks, D. Isenhower, Marie Germain, A. G. Litvinenko, A. Kozlov, R. Seto, K. Haruna, and V. Dzhordzhadze
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Nuclear physics ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,0103 physical sciences ,High mass ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutron ,Coulomb excitation ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ,01 natural sciences - Abstract
We present the first measurement of photoproduction of J/psi and of two-photon production of high-mass e(+)e(-) pairs in electromagnetic (or ultra-peripheral) nucleus-nucleus interactions, using Au + Au data at root s(NN) = 200 GeV. The events are tagged with forward neutrons emitted following Coulomb excitation of one or both Au* nuclei. The event sample consists of 28 events with m(e+e-) > 2 GeV/c(2) with zero like-sign background. The measured cross sections at midrapidity of d sigma/dy (J/psi + Xn, y = 0) = 76 +/- 33 (stat) +/- 11 (syst) pb and d(2)sigma /dm dy (e(+) e(-) + Xn, y = 0) = 86 +/- 23(stat) +/- 16(syst) mu b/ (GeV/c(2)) for m(e+e-) epsilon vertical bar 2.0, 2.8 vertical bar GeV/c(2) have been compared and found to be consistent with models for photoproduction of J/psi and QED based calculations of two-photon production of e(+)e(-) pairs. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- 2009