학술논문

Coherent diffractive photoproduction of $\rho^{0}$ mesons on gold nuclei at RHIC
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Working Paper
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STAR CollaborationAdamczyk, L.Adkins, J. K.Agakishiev, G.Aggarwal, M. M.Ahammed, Z.Ajitanand, N. N.Alekseev, I.Anderson, D. M.Aoyama, R.Aparin, A.Arkhipkin, D.Aschenauer, E. C.Ashraf, M. U.Attri, A.Averichev, G. S.Bai, X.Bairathi, V.Behera, A.Bellwied, R.Bhasin, A.Bhati, A. K.Bhattarai, P.Bielcik, J.Bielcikova, J.Bland, L. C.Bordyuzhin, I. G.Bouchet, J.Brandenburg, J. D.Brandin, A. V.Brown, D.Bunzarov, I.Butterworth, J.Caines, H.Sánchez, M. Calderón de la BarcaCampbell, J. M.Cebra, D.Chakaberia, I.Chaloupka, P.Chang, Z.Chankova-Bunzarova, N.Chatterjee, A.Chattopadhyay, S.Chen, X.Chen, J. H.Cheng, J.Cherney, M.Christie, W.Contin, G.Crawford, H. J.Das, S.De Silva, L. C.Debbe, R. R.Dedovich, T. G.Deng, J.Derevschikov, A. A.Didenko, L.Dilks, C.Dong, X.Drachenberg, J. L.Draper, J. E.Dunkelberger, L. E.Dunlop, J. C.Efimov, L. G.Elsey, N.Engelage, J.Eppley, G.Esha, R.Esumi, S.Evdokimov, O.Ewigleben, J.Eyser, O.Fatemi, R.Fazio, S.Federic, P.Federicova, P.Fedorisin, J.Feng, Z.Filip, P.Finch, E.Fisyak, Y.Flores, C. E.Fujita, J.Fulek, L.Gagliardi, C. A.Garand, D.Geurts, F.Gibson, A.Girard, M.Grosnick, D.Gunarathne, D. S.Guo, Y.Gupta, A.Gupta, S.Guryn, W.Hamad, A. I.Hamed, A.Harlenderova, A.Harris, J. W.He, L.Heppelmann, S.Hirsch, A.Hoffmann, G. W.Horvat, S.Huang, B.Huang, T.Huang, H. Z.Huang, X.Humanic, T. J.Huo, P.Igo, G.Jacobs, W. W.Jentsch, A.Jia, J.Jiang, K.Jowzaee, S.Judd, E. G.Kabana, S.Kalinkin, D.Kang, K.Kauder, K.Ke, H. W.Keane, D.Kechechyan, A.Khan, Z.Kikoła, D. P.Kisel, I.Kisiel, A.Klein, S. R.Kochenda, L.Kocmanek, M.Kollegger, T.Kosarzewski, L. K.Kraishan, A. F.Kravtsov, P.Krueger, K.Kulathunga, N.Kumar, L.Kvapil, J.Kwasizur, J. H.Lacey, R.Landgraf, J. M.Landry, K. D.Lauret, J.Lebedev, A.Lednicky, R.Lee, J. H.Li, W.Li, X.Li, C.Li, Y.Lidrych, J.Lin, T.Lisa, M. A.Liu, Y.Liu, F.Liu, H.Liu, P.Ljubicic, T.Llope, W. J.Lomnitz, M.Longacre, R. S.Luo, S.Luo, X.Ma, G. L.Ma, Y. G.Ma, L.Ma, R.Magdy, N.Majka, R.Mallick, D.Margetis, S.Markert, C.Matis, H. S.Meehan, K.Mei, J. C.Miller, Z. W.Minaev, N. G.Mioduszewski, S.Mishra, D.Mizuno, S.Mohanty, B.Mondal, M. M.Morozov, D. A.Mustafa, M. K.Nasim, Md.Nayak, T. K.Nelson, J. M.Nie, M.Nigmatkulov, G.Niida, T.Nogach, L. V.Nonaka, T.Nurushev, S. B.Odyniec, G.Ogawa, A.Oh, K.Okorokov, V. A.Olvitt Jr., D.Page, B. S.Pak, R.Pandit, Y.Panebratsev, Y.Pawlik, B.Pei, H.Perkins, C.Pile, P.Pluta, J.Poniatowska, K.Porter, J.Posik, M.Poskanzer, A. M.Pruthi, N. K.Przybycien, M.Putschke, J.Qiu, H.Quintero, A.Ramachandran, S.Ray, R. L.Reed, R.Rehbein, M. J.Ritter, H. G.Roberts, J. B.Rogachevskiy, O. V.Romero, J. L.Roth, J. D.Ruan, L.Rusnak, J.Rusnakova, O.Sahoo, N. R.Sahu, P. K.Salur, S.Sandweiss, J.Saur, M.Schambach, J.Schmah, A. M.Schmidke, W. B.Schmitz, N.Schweid, B. R.Seger, J.Sergeeva, M.Seyboth, P.Shah, N.Shahaliev, E.Shanmuganathan, P. V.Shao, M.Sharma, A.Sharma, M. K.Shen, W. Q.Shi, Z.Shi, S. S.Shou, Q. Y.Sichtermann, E. P.Sikora, R.Simko, M.Singha, S.Skoby, M. J.Smirnov, N.Smirnov, D.Solyst, W.Song, L.Sorensen, P.Spinka, H. M.Srivastava, B.Stanislaus, T. D. S.Strikhanov, M.Stringfellow, B.Sugiura, T.Sumbera, M.Summa, B.Sun, Y.Sun, X. M.Sun, X.Surrow, B.Svirida, D. N.Tang, A. H.Tang, Z.Taranenko, A.Tarnowsky, T.Tawfik, A.Thäder, J.Thomas, J. H.Timmins, A. R.Tlusty, D.Todoroki, T.Tokarev, M.Trentalange, S.Tribble, R. E.Tribedy, P.Tripathy, S. K.Trzeciak, B. A.Tsai, O. D.Ullrich, T.Underwood, D. G.Upsal, I.Van Buren, G.van Nieuwenhuizen, G.Vasiliev, A. N.Videbæk, F.Vokal, S.Voloshin, S. A.Vossen, A.Wang, G.Wang, Y.Wang, F.Webb, J. C.Webb, G.Wen, L.Westfall, G. D.Wieman, H.Wissink, S. W.Witt, R.Wu, Y.Xiao, Z. G.Xie, W.Xie, G.Xu, J.Xu, N.Xu, Q. H.Xu, Y. F.Xu, Z.Yang, Y.Yang, Q.Yang, C.Yang, S.Ye, Z.Yi, L.Yip, K.Yoo, I. -K.Yu, N.Zbroszczyk, H.Zha, W.Zhang, Z.Zhang, X. P.Zhang, J. B.Zhang, S.Zhang, J.Zhang, Y.Zhao, J.Zhong, C.Zhou, L.Zhou, C.Zhu, X.Zhu, Z.Zyzak, M.
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Nuclear Experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
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Abstract
The STAR Collaboration reports on the photoproduction of $\pi^+\pi^-$ pairs in gold-gold collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV/nucleon-pair. These pion pairs are produced when a nearly-real photon emitted by one ion scatters from the other ion. We fit the $\pi^+\pi^-$ invariant mass spectrum with a combination of $\rho$ and $\omega$ resonances and a direct $\pi^+\pi^-$ continuum. This is the first observation of the $\omega$ in ultra-peripheral collisions, and the first measurement of $\rho-\omega$ interference at energies where photoproduction is dominated by Pomeron exchange. The $\omega$ amplitude is consistent with the measured $\gamma p\rightarrow \omega p$ cross section, a classical Glauber calculation and the $\omega\rightarrow\pi^+\pi^-$ branching ratio. The $\omega$ phase angle is similar to that observed at much lower energies, showing that the $\rho-\omega$ phase difference does not depend significantly on photon energy. The $\rho^0$ differential cross section $d\sigma/dt$ exhibits a clear diffraction pattern, compatible with scattering from a gold nucleus, with 2 minima visible. The positions of the diffractive minima agree better with the predictions of a quantum Glauber calculation that does not include nuclear shadowing than with a calculation that does include shadowing.
Comment: 24 pages with 9 figures