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Di-electron spectrum at mid-rapidity in p+p collisions at √s=200 GeV

  • L. Adamczyk
  • , G. Agakishiev
  • , M. M. Aggarwal
  • , Z. Ahammed
  • , A. V. Alakhverdyants
  • , I. Alekseev
  • , J. Alford
  • , B. D. Anderson
  • , C. D. Anson
  • , D. Arkhipkin
  • , E. Aschenauer
  • , G. S. Averichev
  • , J. Balewski
  • , A. Banerjee
  • , Z. Barnovska
  • , D. R. Beavis
  • , R. Bellwied
  • , M. J. Betancourt
  • , R. R. Betts
  • , A. Bhasin
  • A. K. Bhati, H. Bichsel, J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, L. C. Bland, I. G. Bordyuzhin, W. Borowski, J. Bouchet, A. V. Brandin, S. G. Brovko, E. Bruna, S. Bueltmann, I. Bunzarov, T. P. Burton, J. Butterworth, X. Z. Cai, H. Caines, M. Calderón De La Barca Sánchez, D. Cebra, R. Cendejas, M. C. Cervantes, P. Chaloupka, Z. Chang, S. Chattopadhyay, H. F. Chen, J. H. Chen, J. Y. Chen, L. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Cherney, A. Chikanian, W. Christie, P. Chung, J. Chwastowski, M. J.M. Codrington, R. Corliss, J. G. Cramer, H. J. Crawford, X. Cui, A. Davila Leyva, L. C. De Silva, R. R. Debbe, T. G. Dedovich, J. Deng, R. Derradi De Souza, S. Dhamija, L. Didenko, F. Ding, A. Dion, P. Djawotho, X. Dong, J. L. Drachenberg, J. E. Draper, C. M. Du, L. E. Dunkelberger, J. C. Dunlop, L. G. Efimov, M. Elnimr, J. Engelage, G. Eppley, L. Eun, O. Evdokimov, R. Fatemi, S. Fazio, J. Fedorisin, R. G. Fersch, P. Filip, E. Finch, Y. Fisyak, C. A. Gagliardi, D. R. Gangadharan, F. Geurts, A. Gibson, S. Gliske, Y. N. Gorbunov, O. G. Grebenyuk, D. Grosnick, S. Gupta, W. Guryn, B. Haag, O. Hajkova, A. Hamed, L. X. Han, J. W. Harris, J. P. Hays-Wehle, S. Heppelmann, A. Hirsch, G. W. Hoffmann, D. J. Hofman, S. Horvat, B. Huang, H. Z. Huang, P. Huck, T. J. Humanic, L. Huo, G. Igo, W. W. Jacobs, C. Jena, J. Joseph, E. G. Judd, S. Kabana, K. Kang, J. Kapitan, K. Kauder, H. W. Ke, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, A. Kesich, D. Kettler, D. P. Kikola, J. Kiryluk, A. Kisiel, V. Kizka, S. R. Klein, D. D. Koetke, T. Kollegger, J. Konzer, I. Koralt, L. Koroleva, W. Korsch, L. Kotchenda, P. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, L. Kumar, M. A.C. Lamont, J. M. Landgraf, S. Lapointe, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, J. H. Lee, W. Leight, M. J. Levine, C. Li, L. Li, W. Li, X. Li, X. Li, Y. Li, Z. M. Li, L. M. Lima, M. A. Lisa, F. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W. J. Llope, R. S. Longacre, Y. Lu, X. Luo, A. Luszczak, G. L. Ma, Y. G. Ma, D. M.M.D. Madagodagettige Don, D. P. Mahapatra, R. Majka, O. I. Mall, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H. Masui, H. S. Matis, D. McDonald, T. S. McShane, S. Mioduszewski, M. K. Mitrovski, Y. Mohammed, B. Mohanty, M. M. Mondal, B. Morozov, M. G. Munhoz, M. K. Mustafa, M. Naglis, B. K. Nandi, Md Nasim, T. K. Nayak, L. V. Nogach, J. Novak, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, K. Oh, A. Ohlson, V. Okorokov, E. W. Oldag, R. A.N. Oliveira, D. Olson, P. Ostrowski, M. Pachr, B. S. Page, S. K. Pal, Y. X. Pan, Y. Pandit, Y. Panebratsev, T. Pawlak, B. Pawlik, H. Pei, C. Perkins, W. Peryt, P. Pile, M. Planinic, J. Pluta, D. Plyku, N. Poljak, J. Porter, A. M. Poskanzer, C. B. Powell, D. Prindle, C. Pruneau, N. K. Pruthi, M. Przybycien, P. R. Pujahari, J. Putschke, H. Qiu, R. Raniwala, S. Raniwala, R. L. Ray, R. Redwine, R. Reed, C. K. Riley, H. G. Ritter, J. B. Roberts, O. V. Rogachevskiy, J. L. Romero, J. F. Ross, L. Ruan, J. Rusnak, N. R. Sahoo, I. Sakrejda, S. Salur, A. Sandacz, J. Sandweiss, E. Sangaline, A. Sarkar, J. Schambach, R. P. Scharenberg, A. M. Schmah, B. Schmidke, N. Schmitz, T. R. Schuster, J. Seele, J. Seger, P. Seyboth, N. Shah, E. Shahaliev, M. Shao, B. Sharma, M. Sharma, S. S. Shi, Q. Y. Shou, E. P. Sichtermann, R. N. Singaraju, M. J. Skoby, D. Smirnov, N. Smirnov, D. Solanki, P. Sorensen, U. G. Desouza, H. M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T. D.S. Stanislaus, S. G. Steadman, J. R. Stevens, R. Stock, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, A. A.P. Suaide, M. C. Suarez, M. Sumbera, X. M. Sun, Y. Sun, Z. Sun, B. Surrow, D. N. Svirida, T. J.M. Symons, A. Szanto De Toledo, J. Takahashi, A. H. Tang, Z. Tang, L. H. Tarini, T. Tarnowsky, D. Thein, J. H. Thomas, J. Tian, A. R. Timmins, D. Tlusty, M. Tokarev, T. A. Trainor, S. Trentalange, R. E. Tribble, P. Tribedy, B. A. Trzeciak, O. D. Tsai, J. Turnau, T. Ullrich, D. G. Underwood, G. Van Buren, G. Van Nieuwenhuizen, J. A. Vanfossen, R. Varma, G. M.S. Vasconcelos, F. Videbæk, Y. P. Viyogi, S. Vokal, S. A. Voloshin, A. Vossen, M. Wada, F. Wang, G. Wang, H. Wang, J. S. Wang, Q. Wang, X. L. Wang, Y. Wang, G. Webb, J. C. Webb, G. D. Westfall, C. Whitten, H. Wieman, S. W. Wissink, R. Witt, W. Witzke, Y. F. Wu, Z. Xiao, W. Xie, K. Xin, H. Xu, N. Xu, Q. H. Xu, W. Xu, Y. Xu, Z. Xu, L. Xue, Y. Yang, Y. Yang, P. Yepes, Y. Yi, K. Yip, I. K. Yoo, M. Zawisza, H. Zbroszczyk, J. B. Zhang, S. Zhang, W. M. Zhang, X. P. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Z. P. Zhang, F. Zhao, J. Zhao, C. Zhong, X. Zhu, Y. H. Zhu, Y. Zoulkarneeva
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Panjab University
  • Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre India
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • Kent State University
  • Ohio State University
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Houston
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • University of Jammu
  • University of Washington
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • SUBATECH
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • University of California at Davis
  • Yale University
  • Old Dominion University
  • Rice University
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Texas A&M University
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • Central China Normal University
  • Tsinghua University
  • Creighton University
  • Cracow University of Technology
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Shandong University
  • Universidade Estadual de Campinas
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • CAS - Institute of Modern Physics
  • Wayne State University
  • University of Kentucky
  • Valparaiso University
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Purdue University
  • Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar
  • Warsaw University of Technology
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Universidade de São Paulo
  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • Michigan State University
  • Pusan National University
  • Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • University of Zagreb
  • University of Rajasthan
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • United States Naval Academy

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Abstract

We report on the mid-rapidity mass spectrum of di-electrons and cross sections of pseudoscalar and vector mesons via e+e- decays, from √s=200 GeV p+p collisions, measured by the large-acceptance experiment STAR at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The ratio of the di-electron continuum to the combinatorial background is larger than 10% over the entire mass range. Simulations of di-electrons from light-meson decays and heavy-flavor decays (charmonium and open charm correlation) are found to describe the data. The extracted ω→e+e- invariant yields are consistent with previous measurements. The mid-rapidity yields (dN/dy) of φ and J/ψ are extracted through their di-electron decay channels and are consistent with the previous measurements of φ→K+K- and J/ψ→e+e -. Our results suggest a new upper limit of the branching ratio of the η→e+e- of 1.7×10-5 at the 90% confidence level.

Original languageEnglish
Article number024906
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume86
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 8 2012

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