2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2008.03.062
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Study of dielectron production in C+C collisions at 1A GeV

Abstract: The emission of e + e − pairs from C+C collisions at an incident energy of 1 GeV per nucleon has been investigated. The measured production probabilities, spanning from the π 0 -Dalitz to the ρ/ω invariant-mass region, display a strong excess above the cocktail of standard hadronic sources. The bombarding-energy dependence of this excess is found to scale like pion production, rather than like eta production. The data are in good agreement with results obtained in the former DLS experiment.

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“…A large di-electron "excess" over the hadronic cocktail was observed in C+C and Ca+Ca collisions. The excess of electron pairs in C+C collisions was investigated by the HADES experiment for beam energies of 1 and 2A G V [10,11]. It was demonstrated, that the yield measured by HADES and filtered with the DLS acceptance coincides with the DLS data for the collision system C+C at 1 A G V. Moreover, the beam energy dependence of the excess yield is found to be identical to the excitation function of pion production.…”
Section: Probing Compressed Nuclear Mater With Virtual Photonsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A large di-electron "excess" over the hadronic cocktail was observed in C+C and Ca+Ca collisions. The excess of electron pairs in C+C collisions was investigated by the HADES experiment for beam energies of 1 and 2A G V [10,11]. It was demonstrated, that the yield measured by HADES and filtered with the DLS acceptance coincides with the DLS data for the collision system C+C at 1 A G V. Moreover, the beam energy dependence of the excess yield is found to be identical to the excitation function of pion production.…”
Section: Probing Compressed Nuclear Mater With Virtual Photonsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As the former DLS experiment provided e + e − data for the p + p reaction at 2.09 GeV [13], we can make a direct comparison along the line already used to confront the DLS and HADES C + C data obtained at 1A GeV [10,17]. As the HADES geometrical acceptance is substantially broader than the DLS one such a comparison can be done by projecting the reconstructed HADES dielectron yields d 3 N/dM ee dP ⊥ dY through the DLS acceptance filter [17] (here P ⊥ and Y are the e + e − pair transverse momentum and rapidity, respectively).…”
Section: B Comparison With Dlsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In fact, because DLS applied to their p + p data additional cleaning cuts [13,18]-0.1 < M ee < 1.25 GeV/c 2 , P ⊥ < 1.2 GeV/c, 0.5 < Y < 1.7, and θ e > 21.5 • -an extrapolation of the HADES yield to rapidities above 1.9, as applied in Ref. [10], is not needed here. The result of this filtering procedure is shown in Fig.…”
Section: B Comparison With Dlsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The like-sign pairs were subjected to the same selection criteria as the unlike-sign ones. Both, the unlike sign invariant-mass distribution and the CB, were corrected for the detector and reconstruction inefficiencies on a pair-by-pair basis, defined as a product of single-electron efficiencies deduced from dedicated Monte-Carlo events embedded into real events [7,8]. The geometrical pair acceptance of the HADES detector was obtained in a similar way through single-electron acceptances.…”
Section: Pp Data At 35 Gevmentioning
confidence: 99%