Origin of the low-mass electron pair excess in light nucleus-nucleus collisions

Autor: The HADES Collaboration, Agakishiev, G., Balanda, A., Belver, D., Belyaev, A. V., Blanco, A., Böhmer, M., Boyard, J. L., Braun-Munzinger, P., Cabanelas, P., Castro, E., Chernenko, S., Christ, T., Destefanis, M., Díaz, J., Dohrmann, F., Dybczak, A., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O. V., Finocchiaro, P., Fonte, P., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Gil, A., Gilardi, C., Golubeva, M., González-Díaz, D., Guber, F., Hennino, T., Holzmann, R., Iori, I., Ivashkin, A., Jurkovic, M., Kämpfer, B., Karavicheva, T., Kirschner, D., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kolb, B. W., Kotte, R., Krizek, F., Krücken, R., Kühn, W., Kugler, A., Kurepin, A., Lang, S., Lange, J. S., Lapidus, K., Liu, T., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Maier, L., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Metag, V., Michalska, B., Michel, J., Morinière, E., Mousa, J., Müntz, C., Naumann, L., Otwinowski, J., Pachmayer, Y. C., Palka, M., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Ramstein, B., Reshetin, A., Rustamov, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Schmah, A., Schwab, E., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Spruck, B., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Sudol, M., Tarantola, A., Teilab, K., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Trebacz, R., Tsertos, H., Wagner, V., Weber, M., Wisniowski, M., Wojcik, T., Wüstenfeld, J., Yurevich, S., Zanevsky, Y. V., Zhou, P.
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Phys.Lett.B690:118-122,2010
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.05.010
Popis: We report measurements of electron pair production in elementary p+p and d+p reactions at 1.25 GeV/u with the HADES spectrometer. For the first time, the electron pairs were reconstructed for n+p reactions by detecting the proton spectator from the deuteron breakup. We find that the yield of electron pairs with invariant mass Me+e- > 0.15 GeV/c2 is about an order of magnitude larger in n+p reactions as compared to p+p. A comparison to model calculations demonstrates that the production mechanism is not sufficiently described yet. The electron pair spectra measured in C+C reactions are compatible with a superposition of elementary n+p and p+p collisions, leaving little room for additional electron pair sources in such light collision systems.
Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, \usepackage{epsfig}
Databáze: arXiv
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