Center of mass energy and system-size dependence of photon production at forward rapidity at RHIC

B. I. Abelev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, A. V. Alakhverdyants, B. D. Anderson, D. Arkhipkin, G. S. Averichev, S. K. Badyal, J. Balewski, O. Barannikova, L. S. Barnby, J. Baudot, S. Baumgart, D. R. Beavis, R. Bellwied, F. Benedosso, M. J. Betancourt, R. R. Betts, A. Bhasin, A. K. BhatiH. Bichsel, J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, B. Biritz, L. C. Bland, I. Bnzarov, M. Bombara, B. E. Bonner, J. Bouchet, E. Braidot, A. V. Brandin, E. Bruna, S. Bueltmann, T. P. Burton, M. Bystersky, X. Z. Cai, H. Caines, M. Calderón, O. Catu, D. Cebra, R. Cendejas, M. C. Cervantes, Z. Chajecki, P. Chaloupka, S. Chattopadhyay, H. F. Chen, J. H. Chen, J. Y. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Cherney, A. Chikanian, K. E. Choi, W. Christie, R. F. Clarke, M. J.M. Codrington, R. Corliss, T. M. Cormier, M. R. Cosentino, J. G. Cramer, H. J. Crawford, D. Das, S. Das, S. Dash, M. Daugherity, L. C. De Silva, T. G. Dedovich, M. DePhillips, A. A. Derevschikov, R. Derradi de Souza, L. Didenko, P. Djawotho, S. M. Dogra, X. Dong, J. L. Drachenberg, J. E. Draper, J. C. Dunlop, M. R.Dutta Mazumdar, L. G. Efimov, E. Elhalhuli, M. Elnimr, J. Engelage, G. Eppley, B. Erazmus, M. Estienne, L. Eun, P. Fachini, R. Fatemi, J. Fedorisin, A. Feng, P. Filip, E. Finch, V. Fine, Y. Fisyak, C. A. Gagliardi, L. Gaillard, D. R. Gangadharan, M. S. Ganti, E. J. Garcia-Solis, A. Geromitsos, F. Geurts, V. Ghazikhanian, P. Ghosh, Y. N. Gorbunov, A. Gordon, O. Grebenyuk, D. Grosnick, B. Grube, S. M. Guertin, K. S.F.F. Guimaraes, A. Gupta, N. Gupta, W. Guryn, B. Haag, T. J. Hallman, A. Hamed, J. W. Harris, W. He, M. Heinz, S. Hepplemann, B. Hippolyte, A. Hirsch, E. Hjort, A. M. Hoffman, G. W. Hoffmann, D. J. Hofman, R. S. Hollis, H. Z. Huang, T. J. Humanic, L. Huo, G. Igo, A. Iordanova, P. Jacobs, W. W. Jacobs, P. Jakl, C. Jena, F. Jin, C. L. Jones, P. G. Jones, J. Joseph, E. G. Judd, S. Kabana, K. Kajimoto, K. Kang, J. Kapitan, K. Kauder, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, D. Kettler, V. Yu Khodyrev, D. P. Kikola, J. Kiryluk, A. Kisiel, S. R. Klein, A. G. Knospe, A. Kocoloski, D. D. Koetke, J. Konzer, M. Kopytine, I. Koralt, W. Korsch, L. Kotchenda, V. Kouchpil, P. Kravtsov, V. I. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, M. Krus, C. Kuhn, L. Kumar, P. Kurnadi, M. A.C. Lamont, J. M. Landgraf, S. LaPointe, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, C. H. Lee, J. H. Lee, W. Leight, M. J. LeVine, C. Li, N. Li, Y. Li, G. Lin, S. J. Lindenbaum, M. A. Lisa, F. Liu, H. Liu, J. Liu, L. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W. J. Llope, R. S. Longacre, W. A. Love, Y. Lu, T. Ludlam, G. L. Ma, Y. G. Ma, D. P. Mahapatra, R. Majka, O. I. Mall, L. K. Mangotra, R. Manweiler, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H. Masui, H. S. Matis, Yu A. Matulenko, D. McDonald, T. S. McShane, A. Meschanin, R. Millner, N. G. Minaev, S. Mioduszewski, A. Mischke, B. Mohanty, M. M. Mondal, D. A. Morozov, M. G. Munhoz, B. K. Nandi, C. Nattrass, T. K. Nayak, J. M. Nelson, P. K. Netrakanti, M. J. Ng, L. V. Nogach, S. B. Nurushev, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, H. Okada, V. Okorokov, D. Olson, M. Pachr, B. S. Page, S. K. Pal, Y. Pandit, Y. Panebratsev, T. Pawlak, T. Peitzmann, V. Perevoztchikov, C. Perkins, W. Peryt, S. C. Phatak, P. Pile, M. Planinic, M. A. Ploskon, J. Pluta, D. Plyku, N. Poljak, A. M. Poskanzer, B. V.K.S. Potukuchi, D. Prindle, C. Pruneau, N. K. Pruthi, P. R. Pujahari, J. Putschke, R. Raniwala, S. Raniwala, R. L. Ray, R. Redwine, R. Reed, A. Ridiger, H. G. Ritter, J. B. Roberts, O. V. Rogachevskiy, J. L. Romero, A. Rose, C. Roy, L. Ruan, M. J. Russcher, R. Sahoo, S. Sakai, I. Sakrejda, T. Sakuma, S. Salur, J. Sandweiss, M. Sarsour, J. Schambach, R. P. Scharenberg, N. Schmitz, J. Seger, I. Selyuzhenkov, P. Seyboth, A. Shabetai, E. Shahaliev, M. Shao, M. Sharma, S. S. Shi, X. H. Shi, E. P. Sichtermann, F. Simon, R. N. Singaraju, M. J. Skoby, N. Smirnov, P. Sorensen, J. Sowinski, H. M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T. D.S. Stanislaus, D. Staszak, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, A. A.P. Suaide, M. C. Suarez, N. L. Subba, M. Sumbera, X. M. Sun, Y. Sun, Z. Sun, B. Surrow, T. J.M. Symons, A. Szanto de Toledo, J. Takahashi, A. H. Tang, Z. Tang, L. H. Tarini, T. Tarnowsky, D. Thein, J. H. Thomas, J. Tian, A. R. Timmins, S. Timoshenko, D. Tlusty, M. Tokarev, T. A. Trainor, V. N. Tram, A. L. Trattner, S. Trentalange, R. E. Tribble, O. D. Tsai, J. Ulery, T. Ullrich, D. G. Underwood, G. Van Buren, M. van Leeuwen, G. van Nieuwenhuizen, J. A. Vanfossen, R. Varma, G. M.S. Vasconcelos, A. N. Vasiliev, F. Videbaek, S. E. Vigdor, Y. P. Viyogi, S. Vokal, S. A. Voloshin, M. Wada, M. Walker, F. Wang, G. Wang, H. Wang, J. S. Wang, Q. Wang, X. Wang, X. L. Wang, Y. Wang, G. Webb, J. C. Webb, G. D. Westfall, C. Whitten, H. Wieman, S. W. Wissink, R. Witt, Y. Wu, W. Xie, N. Xu, Q. H. Xu, Y. Xu, Z. Xu, Y. Yang, P. Yepes, K. Yip, I. K. Yoo, Q. Yue, M. Zawisza, H. Zbroszczyk, W. Zhan, S. Zhang, W. M. Zhang, X. P. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Z. P. Zhang, Y. Zhao, C. Zhong, J. Zhou, X. Zhu, R. Zoulkarneev, Y. Zoulkarneeva, J. X. Zuo

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Abstract

We present the multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions of photons produced in Au + Au and Cu + Cu collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 62.4 and 200 GeV. The photons are measured in the region - 3.7 < η < - 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(sNN) = 62.4 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 η - ybeam, are found to follow a longitudinal scaling independent of centrality and colliding ion species at both beam energies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)134-147
Number of pages14
JournalNuclear Physics A
Volume832
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2010

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank the RHIC Operations Group and RCF at BNL, the NERSC Center at LBNL and the Open Science Grid consortium for providing resources and support. This work was supported in part by the Offices of NP and HEP within the US DOE Office of Science, the US NSF, the Sloan Foundation, the DFG cluster of excellence ‘Origin and Structure of the Universe’, CNRS/IN2P3, STFC and EPSRC of the United Kingdom, FAPESP CNPq of Brazil, Ministry of Ed. and Sci. of the Russian Federation, NNSFC, CAS, MoST, and MoE of China, GA and MSMT of the Czech Republic, FOM and NWO of the Netherlands, DAE, DST, and CSIR of India, Polish Ministry of Sci. and Higher Ed., Korea Research Foundation, Ministry of Sci., Ed. and Sports of the Rep. of Croatia, Russian Ministry of Sci. and Tech., and RosAtom of Russia.

Keywords

  • Forward rapidity
  • Limiting fragmentation
  • Particle production
  • Photons

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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