measurements of light vector mesons through the e + e - channel at the phenix
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Measurements of Light Vector Mesons through the e + e - Channel at the PHENIX. Xinhua Li for the PHENIX Collaboration University of California – Riverside. Introduction. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Measurements of Light Vector Mesons through the e+e-
Channel at the PHENIX
Xinhua Li for the PHENIX Collaboration
University of California – Riverside
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Main goal of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Program at RHIC is detection of signals from potential
phase transition in strongly interacting matter associated with deconfinement or chiral
symmetry restoration
Medium modifications of the light vector
mesons should encode information on chiral
restoration
Introduction
Decay to di-electrons is particularly interesting, since electrons do not re-scatter in the medium and their invariant mass reflects the mass of the vector meson in the altered
vacuum state.
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Broadening of at high T
Ralf Rapp, Physical Review C, 63 (2001)054907
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Central arms of the PHENIX Spectrometer
Drift Chambermeasures particle
momentum
Ring Imaging
Cherenkov detects
electrons
Electro Calorimeter measures particle energy
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Electrons in PHENIX photon converter runs
Mass of e+e- pair
Number of photo-electrons in RICH
E/p Chi2 in RICH
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RHIC Au-Au Luminosity
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1) Small cross section Br(e+e- )dN/dy ~ 10-
4;2) Search for rare events in the environment of high multiplicity;3) Large combinatorial background from photon conversions and Dalitz decays.
Challenge
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Strategy
1. Select electron candidates.2. Require positron and electron to be from different PHENIX central arms.3. Transverse momentum above 300 MeV/c.4. Reject electrons created from photon conversion.5. Generate combinatorial background, using event mixing technique.6. Normalize the background by
, where is the number of e+e+ pairs from same
events, is the number of e-e- pairs from same
events, is the number of e+e- pairs from mixed
events.
7. Subtract the background.
mixeeeeNNN /2
eeN
eeN
mixN
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Reconstructed meson
Statistics:25.8 million minimum biasevents of 200 AGeV AuAu
syst)((stat) 47 101 Signal 5620-
201
BackgroundSignal
Number of reconstructed ’s:
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Simulation
Parameters e+e-
Generated events Ngen for |y|<0.6
3.70 M
Generated events Nrec for |y|<0.5
3.08 M
Reconstructed ’s 14920
Correction factor Ngen/Nrec
(T=320MeV)201
Embedding efficiency 0.70
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Preliminary results
Parameters e+e-
Events analyzed 25.8 M
Branching ratio 2.96x10-4
Run-to-run fluctuation efficiency
0.71
Rapidity density dN/dy .)syst(.)stat(5.24.5 4.38.2
ncyRunEfficietoRun1
atioBranchingRFactorCorrection
N
N
dydN
events
corrected
,
where
correctedN is the number of ‘s corrected by embedding efficiency
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Outlook
In the next RHIC physics run:
1. Higher luminosity.2. PHENIX Transition Radiation Detector will further improve
electron identification.3. EMCal-RICH electron trigger.