1. Beam Energy and Centrality Dependence of Direct-Photon Emission from Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
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Adare, A, Afanasiev, S, Aidala, C, Ajitanand, NN, Akiba, Y, Akimoto, R, Al-Bataineh, H, Alexander, J, Alfred, M, Al-Jamel, A, Al-Ta'ani, H, Angerami, A, Aoki, K, Apadula, N, Aphecetche, L, Aramaki, Y, Armendariz, R, Aronson, SH, Asai, J, Asano, H, Aschenauer, EC, Atomssa, ET, Averbeck, R, Awes, TC, Azmoun, B, Babintsev, V, Bagoly, A, Bai, M, Baksay, G, Baksay, L, Baldisseri, A, Bannier, B, Barish, KN, Barnes, PD, Bassalleck, B, Basye, AT, Bathe, S, Batsouli, S, Baublis, V, Bauer, F, Baumann, C, Baumgart, S, Bazilevsky, A, Belikov, S, Belmont, R, Bennett, R, Berdnikov, A, Berdnikov, Y, Bhom, JH, Bickley, AA, Bjorndal, MT, Blau, DS, Boer, M, Boissevain, JG, Bok, JS, Borel, H, Boyle, K, Brooks, ML, Brown, DS, Bryslawskyj, J, Bucher, D, Buesching, H, Bumazhnov, V, Bunce, G, Burward-Hoy, JM, Butsyk, S, Camacho, CM, Campbell, S, Canoa Roman, V, Caringi, A, Castera, P, Chai, J-S, Chang, BS, Chang, WC, Charvet, J-L, Chen, C-H, Chernichenko, S, Chi, CY, Chiba, J, Chiu, M, Choi, IJ, Choi, JB, Choi, S, Choudhury, RK, Christiansen, P, Chujo, T, Chung, P, Churyn, A, Chvala, O, Cianciolo, V, Citron, Z, Cleven, CR, Cobigo, Y, Cole, BA, Comets, MP, Conesa Del Valle, Z, Connors, M, Constantin, P, Csanád, M, and Csörgő, T
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Nuclear and Plasma Physics ,Synchrotrons and Accelerators ,Physical Sciences ,PHENIX Collaboration ,hep-ex ,nucl-ex ,Mathematical Sciences ,Engineering ,General Physics ,Mathematical sciences ,Physical sciences - Abstract
The PHENIX collaboration presents first measurements of low-momentum (0.41 GeV/c) direct-photon yield dN_{γ}^{dir}/dη is a smooth function of dN_{ch}/dη and can be well described as proportional to (dN_{ch}/dη)^{α} with α≈1.25. This scaling behavior holds for a wide range of beam energies at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider, for centrality selected samples, as well as for different A+A collision systems. At a given beam energy, the scaling also holds for high p_{T} (>5 GeV/c), but when results from different collision energies are compared, an additional sqrt[s_{NN}]-dependent multiplicative factor is needed to describe the integrated-direct-photon yield.
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- 2019