Enhanced production of direct photons in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV and implications for the initial temperature
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DOIAbstract
421 authors from 58 institutions, 6 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Letters. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures for this and previous PHENIX publications are (or will be) publicly available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.htmlThe production of low mass e+e- pairs for m_{e+e-} < 300 MeV/c^2 and 1 < p_T <5 GeV/c is measured in p+p and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV. Enhanced e+e- pair yield above hadronic sources is observed in Au+Au collisions. Treating the excess as internal conversion of direct photons, the invariant yield of direct photons is deduced. In central Au+Au collisions, the excess over p+p is exponential in p_T}, with inverse slope T = 221 +/- 23 (stat) +/- 18 (syst) MeV. Hydrodyn...
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