Di-electron spectrum at mid-rapidity in p+p collisions at root s=200 GeV uri icon

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 e+e- invariant yields are consistent with previous measurements. The mid-rapidity yields (dN/dy) of and J/ are extracted through their di-electron decay channels and are consistent with the previous measurements of K+K- and J/e+e -. Our results suggest a new upper limit of the branching ratio of the e+e- of 1.710-5 at the 90% confidence level. 2012 American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW C

author list (cited authors)

  • Adamczyk, L., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., ... Zoulkarneeva, Y.

citation count

  • 26

complete list of authors

  • Adamczyk, L||Agakishiev, G||Aggarwal, MM||Ahammed, Z||Alakhverdyants, AV||Alekseev, I||Alford, J||Anderson, BD||Anson, CD||Arkhipkin, D||Aschenauer, E||Averichev, GS||Balewski, J||Banerjee, A||Barnovska, Z||Beavis, DR||Bellwied, R||Betancourt, MJ||Betts, RR||Bhasin, A||Bhati, AK||Bichsel, H||Bielcik, J||Bielcikova, J||Bland, LC||Bordyuzhin, IG||Borowski, W||Bouchet, J||Brandin, AV||Brovko, SG||Bruna, E||Bueltmann, S||Bunzarov, I||Burton, TP||Butterworth, J||Cai, XZ||Caines, H||Sanchez, M Calderon De la Barca||Cebra, D||Cendejas, R||Cervantes, MC||Chaloupka, P||Chang, Z||Chattopadhyay, S||Chen, HF||Chen, JH||Chen, JY||Chen, L||Cheng, J||Cherney, M||Chikanian, A||Christie, W||Chung, P||Chwastowski, J||Codrington, MJM||Corliss, R||Cramer, JG||Crawford, HJ||Cui, X||Leyva, A Davila||De Silva, LC||Debbe, RR||Dedovich, TG||Deng, J||De Souza, R Derradi||Dhamija, S||Didenko, L||Ding, F||Dion, A||Djawotho, P||Dong, X||Drachenberg, JL||Draper, JE||Du, CM||Dunkelberger, LE||Dunlop, JC||Efimov, LG||Elnimr, M||Engelage, J||Eppley, G||Eun, L||Evdokimov, O||Fatemi, R||Fazio, S||Fedorisin, J||Fersch, RG||Filip, P||Finch, E||Fisyak, Y||Gagliardi, CA||Gangadharan, DR||Geurts, F||Gibson, A||Gliske, S||Gorbunov, YN||Grebenyuk, OG||Grosnick, D||Gupta, S||Guryn, W||Haag, B||Hajkova, O||Hamed, A||Han, L-X||Harris, JW||Hays-Wehle, JP||Heppelmann, S||Hirsch, A||Hoffmann, GW||Hofman, DJ||Horvat, S||Huang, B||Huang, HZ||Huck, P||Humanic, TJ||Huo, L||Igo, G||Jacobs, WW||Jena, C||Joseph, J||Judd, EG||Kabana, S||Kang, K||Kapitan, J||Kauder, K||Ke, HW||Keane, D||Kechechyan, A||Kesich, A||Kettler, D||Kikola, DP||Kiryluk, J||Kisiel, A||Kizka, V||Klein, SR||Koetke, DD||Kollegger, T||Konzer, J||Koralt, I||Koroleva, L||Korsch, W||Kotchenda, L||Kravtsov, P||Krueger, K||Kumar, L||Lamont, MAC||Landgraf, JM||LaPointe, S||Lauret, J||Lebedev, A||Lednicky, R||Lee, JH||Leight, W||LeVine, MJ||Li, C||Li, L||Li, W||Li, X||Li, X||Li, Y||Li, ZM||Lima, LM||Lisa, MA||Liu, F||Ljubicic, T||Llope, WJ||Longacre, RS||Lu, Y||Luo, X||Luszczak, A||Ma, GL||Ma, YG||Don, DMMD Madagodagettige||Mahapatra, DP||Majka, R||Mall, OI||Margetis, S||Markert, C||Masui, H||Matis, HS||McDonald, D||McShane, TS||Mioduszewski, S||Mitrovski, MK||Mohammed, Y||Mohanty, B||Mondal, MM||Morozov, B||Munhoz, MG||Mustafa, MK||Naglis, M||Nandi, BK||Nasim, Md||Nayak, TK||Nogach, LV||Novak, J||Odyniec, G||Ogawa, A||Oh, K||Ohlson, A||Okorokov, V||Oldag, EW||Oliveira, RAN||Olson, D||Ostrowski, P||Pachr, M||Page, BS||Pal, SK||Pan, YX||Pandit, Y||Panebratsev, Y||Pawlak, T||Pawlik, B||Pei, H||Perkins, C||Peryt, W||Pile, P||Planinic, M||Pluta, J||Plyku, D||Poljak, N||Porter, J||Poskanzer, AM||Powell, CB||Prindle, D||Pruneau, C||Pruthi, NK||Przybycien, M||Pujahari, PR||Putschke, J||Qiu, H||Raniwala, R||Raniwala, S||Ray, RL||Redwine, R||Reed, R||Riley, CK||Ritter, HG||Roberts, JB||Rogachevskiy, OV||Romero, JL||Ross, JF||Ruan, L||Rusnak, J||Sahoo, NR||Sakrejda, I||Salur, S||Sandacz, A||Sandweiss, J||Sangaline, E||Sarkar, A||Schambach, J||Scharenberg, RP||Schmah, AM||Schmidke, B||Schmitz, N||Schuster, TR||Seele, J||Seger, J||Seyboth, P||Shah, N||Shahaliev, E||Shao, M||Sharma, B||Sharma, M||Shi, SS||Shou, QY||Sichtermann, EP||Singaraju, RN||Skoby, MJ||Smirnov, D||Smirnov, N||Solanki, D||Sorensen, P||Desouza, UG||Spinka, HM||Srivastava, B||Stanislaus, TDS||Steadman, SG||Stevens, JR||Stock, R||Strikhanov, M||Stringfellow, B||Suaide, AAP||Suarez, MC||Sumbera, M||Sun, XM||Sun, Y||Sun, Z||Surrow, B||Svirida, DN||Symons, TJM||De Toledo, A Szanto||Takahashi, J||Tang, AH||Tang, Z||Tarini, LH||Tarnowsky, T||Thein, D||Thomas, JH||Tian, J||Timmins, AR||Tlusty, D||Tokarev, M||Trainor, TA||Trentalange, S||Tribble, RE||Tribedy, P||Trzeciak, BA||Tsai, OD||Turnau, J||Ullrich, T||Underwood, DG||Van Buren, G||Van Nieuwenhuizen, G||Jr, JA Vanfossen||Varma, R||Vasconcelos, GMS||Videbk, F||Viyogi, YP||Vokal, S||Voloshin, SA||Vossen, A||Wada, M||Wang, F||Wang, G||Wang, H||Wang, JS||Wang, Q||Wang, XL||Wang, Y||Webb, G||Webb, JC||Westfall, GD||Jr, C Whitten||Wieman, H||Wissink, SW||Witt, R||Witzke, W||Wu, YF||Xiao, Z||Xie, W||Xin, K||Xu, H||Xu, N||Xu, QH||Xu, W||Xu, Y||Xu, Z||Xue, L||Yang, Y||Yang, Y||Yepes, P||Yi, Y||Yip, K||Yoo, I-K||Zawisza, M||Zbroszczyk, H||Zhang, JB||Zhang, S||Zhang, WM||Zhang, XP||Zhang, Y||Zhang, ZP||Zhao, F||Zhao, J||Zhong, C||Zhu, X||Zhu, YH||Zoulkarneeva, Y

publication date

  • August 2012