1. Observation of Direct Photons in Central158AGeVP208b+P208bCollisions
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H. Delagrange, Shunji Nishimura, K. Yagi, H. Kalechofsky, MV Manzano Martin, S. K. Nayak, Md. F. Mir, Madan M. Aggarwal, S. Dutt, S. Pavliouk, M. L. Purschke, H. Naef, A. Nianine, Y. Yokota, Yasuo Miake, C. Blume, S. Neumaier, L. Luquin, V. Djordjadze, G. Sood, R. Cherbatchev, Sanjeev Singh Sambyal, V. S. Bhatia, M. Kurata, A. Kugler, Z.K. Böröcz, R. Santo, E.-M. Bohne, B. W. Kolb, Gerrit Jan van Nieuwenhuizen, I. Hrivnacova, O. P. Gavrishchuk, G. Stefanek, S. Garpman, A.S. Vodopianov, D. P. Mahapatra, Agneta Oskarsson, R. Kamermans, P. Steinberg, S. P. Sorensen, I. Otterlund, K. El Chenawi, T. K. Nayak, M. D. Trivedi, Y.Y. Lee, V. Nikitine, Peter M. Nilsson, P. Foka, G.S. Shabratova, K. Söderström, T. Svensson, S. Knoche, E. Stenlund, A.L.S. Angelis, Klaus Johannes Reygers, F. Retiere, D. P. Morrison, B.N. Gus'kov, W. Pinganaud, A. Agnihotri, P. W. Stankus, G. R. Young, Herbert Löhner, G. C. Mishra, Zubayer Ahammed, Joakim Nystrand, Krzysztof Karpio, N. Solomey, Gunther Roland, M. R. Dutta Majumdar, M. Pachr, V. Astakhov, D. Bucher, N. v. Eijndhoven, Hiroyuki Sako, Tatsuya Chujo, S. K. Badyal, Jan Rak, J. Urbahn, Y. Schutz, K. Karadjev, E. C. v. d. Pijll, Sergey Fokin, N.A. Kuzmin, Y. P. Viyogi, Bikash Sinha, A. Maximov, D. Stüken, I. Langbein, I. Sibiriak, R. Higuchi, Sergey Nikolaev, S. Eliseev, S. Kees, V. Avdeitchikov, M. P. Decowski, P. Donni, U. v. Poblotzki, V. Arefiev, T. C. Awes, Teodor Siemiarczuk, Sukalyan Chattopadhyay, G. Martínez, T. Krümpel, M. S. Ganti, V. Petracek, Kh Kampert, L. Rosselet, I. Doubovik, A. C. Das, Vladislav Manko, R. Bock, F. Plasil, H. Büsching, A. A. Tsvetkov, Bolek Wyslouch, A. Buijs, Bedangadas Mohanty, T. Peitzmann, R. Glasow, B. K. Nandi, A.L. Lebedev, P. Kulinich, Nikolai V Slavine, Y. Miyamoto, Mikhail Ippolitov, G. Mgebrichvili, S. Bathe, Shiv K. Gupta, Michal Sumbera, K. Enosawa, I. Koutcheryaev, V. S. Ramamurthy, S. Kato, F. E. Obenshain, D. S. Mukhopadhyay, P.V.K.S. Baba, L. Tykarski, I. Roufanov, H. Å. Gustafsson, F. J M Geurts, T. K. Ghosh, V.G. Antonenko, S. Vörös, H. H. Gutbrod, Hans Rudolf Schmidt, Petr Nomokonov, Rashmi Raniwala, A. A. Vinogradov, Susumu Sato, B. Batiounia, T. Bernier, N. K. Rao, K. B. Bhalla, M. J. Mora, H. Schlagheck, I. Kosarev, Sudhir Raniwala, J. M. Rubio, Lars Carlén, David Olle Rickard Silvermyr, C. Roy, K. Kurita, C. Barlag, V. Chalyshev, C. Klein-Bösing, T. H. Shah, and A. Claussen
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Large Hadron Collider ,Photon ,Nuclear Theory ,Hadron ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Elementary particle ,Spectral line ,Massless particle ,Nuclear physics ,Quark–gluon plasma ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment ,Boson - Abstract
A measurement of direct photon production in {sup 208}Pb+ {sup 208}Pb collisions at 158A GeV has been carried out in the CERN WA98 experiment. The invariant yield of direct photons in central collisions is extracted as a function of transverse momentum in the interval 0.5 1.5 GeV/c . The result constitutes the first observation of direct photons in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. It could be significant for diagnosis of quark-gluon-plasma formation.
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- 2000