151. Center of mass energy and system-size dependence of photon production at forward rapidity at RHIC
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G. Van Buren, C-Q. Li, O. Catu, R. P. Scharenberg, Christina Markert, S. S. Shi, A. Kocoloski, J. L. Drachenberg, S. Dash, Shoko Sakai, H. S. Matis, W. Christie, T. W. Ludlam, J. M. Nelson, W. W. Jacobs, A. Feng, Jay Roberts, W. M. Zhang, Andrey Vasiliev, Russell Richard Betts, D. G. Underwood, L. H. Tarini, K. Kajimoto, B. Haag, M. Zawisza, H. M. Spinka, I. Sakrejda, P. Fachini, K. S.F.F. Guimaraes, G. Wang, Yan Li, P. Seyboth, Jing-Han Chen, W. Peryt, E. J. Garcia-Solis, J. W. Harris, J. Lauret, J. X. Zuo, Madan M. Aggarwal, Fuqiang Wang, Janet Elizabeth Seger, A. M. Hoffman, R. Derradi de Souza, B. I. Abelev, M. Shao, T. J. Hallman, J. Cheng, T. J. M. Symons, Jongmin Lee, R. L. Ray, D. Staszak, I. Bnzarov, J. H. Thomas, Zebo Tang, O. I. Mall, N. Xu, P. Filip, Y. Yang, William Axel Leight, Souvik Das, Mateusz Andrzej Ploskon, R. Witt, L. C. De Silva, Sergey Voloshin, Christine Nattrass, S. LaPointe, N. Li, S. Mioduszewski, R. Lednicky, T. Tarnowsky, P. Djawotho, Yong Xu, A. Gordon, Anju Bhasin, R. P. Redwine, S. R. Klein, T. Ljubicic, N. L. Subba, D. L. Olson, V. Yu Khodyrev, M. J. M. Codrington, D. Kettler, B. Grube, G. S. Averichev, Z. Chajecki, M. A.C. Lamont, L. K. Mangotra, Jorn Henning Putschke, P. Pile, Donald M. McDonald, B. K. Srivastava, A. V. Brandin, P. Yepes, W. Guryn, H. Okada, R. Manweiler, Hongfang Liu, A. Lebedev, H. Caines, Sudhir Raniwala, G. D. Westfall, Xiangming Sun, A. Shabetai, Wei Xie, H. Bichsel, G. Odyniec, Y. Zoulkarneeva, A. Chikanian, A. H. Tang, A. A. Derevschikov, A. L. Trattner, Haiyan Wang, Q. H. Xu, S. E. Vigdor, A. M. Poskanzer, Petr Jákl, Boris Hippolyte, W. L. Zhan, O. G. Grebenyuk, A. K. Bhati, D. Keane, C. Perkins, J. Joseph, Christian Claude Kuhn, H. Z. Huang, G. M.S. Vasconcelos, Jana Bielcikova, X. Z. Cai, S. Vokal, Frank Simon, D. Tlusty, A. Kechechyan, Andre Mischke, Mirko Planinic, V. N. Tram, J. Baudot, J. C. Dunlop, J. Fedorisin, Nikolai Smirnov, M. Sarsour, T. Peitzmann, Z. J. Sun, P. Sorensen, X. H. Shi, L. G. Efimov, M. Krus, David Jonathan Hofman, H. Masui, I. Selyuzhenkov, A. G. Knospe, Zubayer Ahammed, M. J. LeVine, P. R. Pujahari, T. P. Burton, R. N. Singaraju, Q. Wang, F. Liu, L. Huo, A. P. Meschanin, Y. Pandit, Peter Graham Jones, M. J. Russcher, R. Cendejas, C-H. Lee, T. K. Nayak, T. S. McShane, J. Kiryluk, Z. Xu, G. Lin, X. L. Wang, D. Thein, Peter Martin Jacobs, Bernd Surrow, Y. N. Gorbunov, C. Zhong, K. Kang, Ermes Braidot, R. D. Majka, J. Sowinski, L. Didenko, J. Takahashi, D. A. Morozov, S. K. Badyal, S. B. Nurushev, Anik Gupta, N. Schmitz, Jing Zhou, B. E. Bonner, M. Kopytine, J. Y. Chen, E. Shahaliev, S. Margetis, R. F. Clarke, J. Schambach, A. Ridiger, M. Tokarev, O. D. Tsai, M. van Leeuwen, X. Dong, S. K. Pal, B. D. Anderson, A. Szanto de Toledo, J. Kapitan, Pawan Kumar Netrakanti, K. Yip, C. A. Whitten, Feng Jin, D. Arkhipkin, B. Erazmus, M. Elnimr, Sergey Timoshenko, Y. Fisyak, A. R. Timmins, S. M. Dogra, A. Hamed, J. S. Wang, Adam Ryszard Kisiel, M. C. Cervantes, R. Corliss, Wolfgang Korsch, C. A. Gagliardi, M. J. Skoby, Frank Jm Geurts, E. Elhalhuli, Neeraj Gupta, D. Cebra, S. Trentalange, M. Estienne, N. K. Pruthi, S. Baumgart, D. D. Koetke, T. D. S. Stanislaus, H. H. Wieman, T. Pawlak, R. S. Longacre, E. P. Sichtermann, J. E. Draper, S. J. Lindenbaum, A. Iordanova, H. J. Crawford, M. Pachr, Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz, D. J. Prindle, E. Hjort, Y. F. Wu, G. Eppley, A. V. Alakhverdyants, J. Balewski, Rashmi Raniwala, J. Engelage, Xiaofeng Zhu, Donika Plyku, R. Fatemi, Michael Joseph Betancourt, Claude Andre Pruneau, R. Millner, Matthew Walker, M. Heinz, M. A. Lisa, Lee Stuart Barnby, Debasish Das, Raghunath Sahoo, Jifa Tian, Xuan Wang, J. Pluta, K. Krueger, Sevil Salur, Y. Wang, A. Ogawa, H. F. Chen, G. Igo, T. Ullrich, Thomas A. Trainor, Jaroslav Bielcik, M. Sharma, J. A. Vanfossen, L. Ruan, J. Bouchet, R. Zoulkarneev, Y. Panebratsev, A. Geromitsos, D. Grosnick, N. G. Minaev, V. Kouchpil, Premomoy Ghosh, J. M. Landgraf, V. Ghazikhanian, S. H. Zhang, L. Eun, Y. J. Sun, K. Kauder, W. He, M. R. Dutta Mazumdar, Basanta Kumar Nandi, Marek Bombara, O. V. Rogachevskiy, M. Cherney, Thomas Michael Cormier, Yi Zhang, R. E. Tribble, Lokesh Kumar, M. Strikhanov, Andrew Rose, Y. Zhao, J. L. Romero, Rolf K. Reed, Gerald W Hoffmann, S. Kabana, Y. P. Viyogi, B. Biritz, V. A. Okorokov, J. Konzer, Mitali Mondal, E. Finch, C. Roy, Ki-Seok Choi, W. A. Love, J. Sandweiss, J. G. Cramer, P. Chaloupka, T. J. Humanic, Qian Yue, R. Varma, Yu A. Matulenko, B. S. Page, D. P. Kikola, B. Stringfellow, B. V.K.S. Potukuchi, Yu-Gang Ma, Xuan Zhang, Jie Liu, I. Koralt, Hanna Paulina Zbroszczyk, L. V. Nogach, M. J. Ng, V. I. Kravtsov, G. Van Nieuwenhuizen, P. Kurnadi, D. R. Beavis, Zhenyu Zhang, M. R. Cosentino, F. Benedosso, T. G. Dedovich, T. Sakuma, S. C. Phatak, V. Fine, L. Kotchenda, S. Hepplemann, W. J. Llope, S. M. Guertin, Alexandre Alarcon Do Passo Suaide, M. DePhillips, D. P. Mahapatra, R. S. Hollis, Michal Sumbera, S. W. Wissink, M. Calderon, Nikola Poljak, Bedangadas Mohanty, M. Wada, M. Bystersky, I. K. Yoo, D. R. Gangadharan, E. G. Judd, L. C. Bland, L. Liu, C. L. Jones, M. C. Suarez, J. Ulery, H. G. Ritter, O. Barannikova, R. Bellwied, L. Gaillard, M. S. Daugherity, Guo-Liang Ma, A. S. Hirsch, J. C. Webb, P. Kravtsov, S. Bueltmann, Elena Bruna, F. Videbæk, G. Webb, Sukalyan Chattopadhyay, M. S. Ganti, Chitrasen Jena, Y. P. Lu, V. Perevoztchikov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département Recherches Subatomiques (DRS-IPHC), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), STAR, and Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Photon ,Particle Production ,Meson ,Hadron ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Elementary particle ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Nuclear physics ,heavy ion ,scattering ,gold ,0103 physical sciences ,Rapidity ,Limiting Fragmentation ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,010306 general physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,Condensate ,Physics ,Photons ,Plus Au Collisions ,Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions ,Matter ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Heavy-Ion Collisions ,Detector ,Forward Rapidity ,Collaboration ,Charged particle ,Multiplicity ,Pseudorapidity ,Perspective ,Quark-Gluon Plasma ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nucleon - Abstract
We present the multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions of photons produced in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at \sqrt{s_NN} = 62.4 and 200 GeV. The photons are measured in the region -3.7 < \eta < -2.3 using the photon multiplicity detector in the STAR experiment at RHIC. The number of photons produced per average number of participating nucleon pairs increases with the beam energy and is independent of the collision centrality. For collisions with similar average numbers of participating nucleons the photon multiplicities are observed to be similar for Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at a given beam energy. The ratios of the number of charged particles to photons in the measured pseudorapidity range are found to be 1.4 +/- 0.1 and 1.2 +/- 0.1 for \sqrt{s_NN} = 62.4 GeV and 200 GeV, respectively. The energy dependence of this ratio could reflect varying contributions from baryons to charged particles, while mesons are the dominant contributors to photon production in the given kinematic region. The photon pseudorapidity distributions normalized by average number of participating nucleon pairs, when plotted as a function of \eta - ybeam, are found to follow a longitudinal scaling independent of centrality and colliding ion species at both beam energies., Comment: 19 pages and 5 figures, Accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics A
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