1. $\rho^{0}$ Photoproduction in AuAu Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=62.4 GeV with STAR
- Author
-
Agakishiev, G., M. Aggarwal, M., Ahammed, Z., V. Alakhverdyants, A., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., D. Anderson, B., D. Anson, C., Arkhipkin, D., S. Averichev, G., Balewski, J., R. Beavis, D., K. Behera, N., Bellwied, R., J. Betancourt, M., Betts, R.R., Bhasin, A., K. Bhati, A., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., C. Bland, L., G. Bordyuzhin, I., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Braidot, E., V. Brandin, A., Bridgeman, A., G. Brovko, S., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., P. Burton, T., Z. Cai, X., Caines, H., Calder'On De La Barca S'Anchez, M., Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., C. Cervantes, M., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., F. Chen, H., H. Chen, J., Y. Chen, J., Chen, Lin, Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., E. Choi, K., Christie, W., Chung, P., J. M. Codrington, M., Corliss, R., G. Cramer, J., J. Crawford, H., Davila Leyva, A., C. De Silva, L., Debbe, R.R., G. Dedovich, T., Deng, J., A. Derevschikov, A., Derradi De Souza, R., Didenko, L., Djawotho, P., M. Dogra, S., Dong, X., L. Drachenberg, J., E. Draper, J., M. Du, C., C. Dunlop, J., G. Efimov, L., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Estienne, Magali, Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., G. Fersch, R., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fine, V., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C.A., Geurts, F., Ghosh, P., N. Gorbunov, Y., Gordon, A., G. Grebenyuk, O., Grosnick, D., Gupta, Anupam, Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L.-X., W. Harris, J., P. Hays-Wehle, J., Heinz, M., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hjort, E., W. Hoffmann, G., J. Hofman, D., Huang, B., Z. Huang, H., J. Humanic, T., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, P., Jacobs, W.W., Jena, C., Jin, F., Joseph, J., G. Judd, E., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., W. Ke, H., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kettler, D., P. Kikola, D., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., R. Klein, S., G. Knospe, A., D. Koetke, D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kouchpil, V., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Krus, M., Kumar, L., Lamont, M.A. C., M. Landgraf, J., Lapointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., H. Lee, J., Leight, W., J. Levine, M., Li, C., Li, L., Li, N., Li, W., Li, Xiaojian, Li, Y., M. Li, Z., M. Lima, L., A. Lisa, M., Liu, Franklin, Liu, Hong, Liu, J., Ljubicic, T., J. Llope, W., S. Longacre, R., Lu, Y., V. Lukashov, E., Luo, X., L. Ma, G., G. Ma, Y., P. Mahapatra, D., Majka, R., I. Mall, O., Manweiler, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., S. Matis, H., Mcdonald, D., S. Mcshane, T., Meschanin, A., Milner, R., G. Minaev, N., Mioduszewski, S., K. Mitrovski, M., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., M. Mondal, M., Morozov, B., Morozov, D.A., G. Munhoz, M., K. Mustafa, M., Naglis, M., K. Nandi, B., K. Nayak, T., V. Nogach, L., B. Nurushev, S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., W. Oldag, E., Oliveira, R.A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., S. Page, B., K. Pal, S., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pei, H., Peitzmann, T., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., A. Ploskon, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., M. Poskanzer, A., V. K. S. Potukuchi, B., B. Powell, C., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., K. Pruthi, N., R. Pujahari, P., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., L. Ray, R., Redwine, R., Reed, R., G. Ritter, H., B. Roberts, J., V. Rogachevskiy, O., L. Romero, J., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., R. Sahoo, N., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., P. Scharenberg, R., Schaub, J., M. Schmah, A., Schmitz, N., R. Schuster, T., Seele, J., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, M., Shi, S.S., Y. Shou, Q., P. Sichtermann, E., Simon, F., N. Singaraju, R., J. Skoby, M., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., G. Desouza, U., M. Spinka, H., Srivastava, B., D. S. Stanislaus, T., G. Steadman, S., R. Stevens, J., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., A. P. Suaide, A., C. Suarez, M., L. Subba, N., Sumbera, M., M. Sun, X., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., N. Svirida, D., J. M. Symons, T., Szanto De Toledo, A., Takahashi, J., H. Tang, A., Tang, Z., H. Tarini, L., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., H. Thomas, J., Tian, J., R. Timmins, A., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T.A., Trentalange, S., E. Tribble, R., Tribedy, P., A. Trzeciak, B., D. Tsai, O., Ullrich, T., G. Underwood, D., Van Buren, G., Van Nieuwenhuizen, G., A. Vanfossen, J., Varma, R., M. S. Vasconcelos, G., N. Vasiliev, A., Videbæk, F., P. Viyogi, Y., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S.A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, Gang, Wang, H., S. Wang, J., Wang, Q., L. Wang, X., Wang, Y., Webb, G., C. Webb, J., D. Westfall, G., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., W. Wissink, S., Witt, R., Witzke, W., F. Wu, Y., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., H. Xu, Q., Xu, Wei-Jiang, Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yip, K., Yoo, I.-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., B. Zhang, J., Zhang, S., M. Zhang, W., P. Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., P. Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., H. Zhu, Y., Zoulkarneeva, Y., Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), and STAR
- Subjects
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Nuclear Theory ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Nuclear Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
Vector mesons may be photoproduced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions when a virtual photon emitted by one nucleus scatters from the other nucleus, emerging as a vector meson. The STAR Collaboration has previously presented measurements of coherent $\rho^0$ photoproduction at center of mass energies of 130 GeV and 200 GeV in AuAu collisions. Here, we present a measurement of the cross section at 62.4 GeV; we find that the cross section for coherent $\rho^0$ photoproduction with nuclear breakup is $10.5\pm1.5\pm 1.6$ mb at 62.4 GeV. The cross-section ratio between 200 GeV and 62.4 GeV is $2.8\pm0.6$, less than is predicted by most theoretical models. It is, however, proportionally much larger than the previously observed $15\pm 55$% increase between 130 GeV and 200 GeV.
- Published
- 2011