Energy dependence of acceptance-corrected dielectron excess mass spectrum at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at sNN=19.6 and 200 GeV

The acceptance-corrected dielectron excess mass spectra, where the known hadronic sources have been subtracted from the inclusive dielectron mass spectra, are reported for the first time at mid-rapidity |yee|<1 in minimum-bias Au+Au collisions at sNN=19.6 and 200 GeV. The excess mass spectra are...

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Main Authors: L. Adamczyk, J.K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev, M.M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E.C. Aschenauer, G.S. Averichev, A. Banerjee, R. Bellwied, A. Bhasin, A.K. Bhati, P. Bhattarai, J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, L.C. Bland, I.G. Bordyuzhin, J. Bouchet, A.V. Brandin, I. Bunzarov, T.P. Burton, J. Butterworth, H. Caines, M. Calder'on de la Barca S'anchez, J.M. Campbell, D. Cebra, M.C. Cervantes, I. Chakaberia, P. Chaloupka, Z. Chang, S. Chattopadhyay, J.H. Chen, X. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Cherney, W. Christie, M.J.M. Codrington, G. Contin, H.J. Crawford, S. Das, L.C. De Silva, R.R. Debbe, T.G. Dedovich, J. Deng, A.A. Derevschikov, B. di Ruzza, L. Didenko, C. Dilks, X. Dong, J.L. Drachenberg, J.E. Draper, C.M. Du, L.E. Dunkelberger, J.C. Dunlop, L.G. Efimov, J. Engelage, G. Eppley, R. Esha, O. Evdokimov, O. Eyser, R. Fatemi, S. Fazio, P. Federic, J. Fedorisin, Feng, P. Filip, Y. Fisyak, C.E. Flores, L. Fulek, C.A. Gagliardi, D. Garand, F. Geurts, A. Gibson, M. Girard, L. Greiner, D. Grosnick, D.S. Gunarathne, Y. Guo, S. Gupta, A. Gupta, W. Guryn, A. Hamad, A. Hamed, R. Haque, J.W. Harris, L. He, S. Heppelmann, A. Hirsch, G.W. Hoffmann, D.J. Hofman, S. Horvat, H.Z. Huang, X. Huang, B. Huang, P. Huck, T.J. Humanic, G. Igo, W.W. Jacobs, H. Jang, K. Jiang, E.G. Judd, S. Kabana, D. Kalinkin, K. Kang, K. Kauder, H.W. Ke, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, Z.H. Khan, D.P. Kikola, I. Kisel, A. Kisiel, S.R. Klein, D.D. Koetke, T. Kollegger, L.K. Kosarzewski, L. Kotchenda, A.F. Kraishan, P. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, I. Kulakov, L. Kumar, R.A. Kycia, M.A.C. Lamont, J.M. Landgraf, K.D. Landry, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, J.H. Lee, X. Li, W. Li, Z.M. Li, Y. Li, C. Li, M.A. Lisa, F. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W.J. Llope, M. Lomnitz, R.S. Longacre, X. Luo, L. Ma, R. Ma, G.L. Ma, Y.G. Ma, N. Magdy, R. Majka, A. Manion, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H. Masui, H.S. Matis, D. McDonald, K. Meehan, N.G. Minaev, S. Mioduszewski, B. Mohanty, M.M. Mondal, D.A. Morozov, M.K. Mustafa, B.K. Nandi, Md. Nasim, T.K. Nayak, G. Nigmatkulov, L.V. Nogach, S.Y. Noh, J. Novak, S.B. Nurushev, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, K. Oh, V. Okorokov, D.L. Olvitt Jr., B.S. Page, Y.X. Pan, Y. Pandit, Y. Panebratsev, T. Pawlak, B. Pawlik, H. Pei, C. Perkins, A. Peterson, P. Pile, M. Planinic, J. Pluta, N. Poljak, K. Poniatowska, J. Porter, M. Posik, A.M. Poskanzer, N.K. Pruthi, J. Putschke, H. Qiu, A. Quintero, S. Ramachandran, R. Raniwala, S. Raniwala, R.L. Ray, H.G. Ritter, J.B. Roberts, O.V. Rogachevskiy, J.L. Romero, A. Roy, L. Ruan, J. Rusnak, O. Rusnakova, N.R. Sahoo, P.K. Sahu, I. Sakrejda, S. Salur, A. Sandacz, J. Sandweiss, A. Sarkar, J. Schambach, R.P. Scharenberg, A.M. Schmah, W.B. Schmidke, N. Schmitz, J. Seger, P. Seyboth, N. Shah, E. Shahaliev, P.V. Shanmuganathan, M. Shao, M.K. Sharma, B. Sharma, W.Q. Shen, S.S. Shi, Q.Y. Shou, E.P. Sichtermann, R. Sikora, M. Simko, M.J. Skoby, N. Smirnov, D. Smirnov, D. Solanki, L. Song, P. Sorensen, H.M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T.D.S. Stanislaus, R. Stock, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, M. Sumbera, B.J. Summa, Y. Sun, Z. Sun, X.M. Sun, X. Sun, B. Surrow, D.N. Svirida, M.A. Szelezniak, J. Takahashi, A.H. Tang, Z. Tang, T. Tarnowsky, A.N. Tawfik, J.H. Thomas, A.R. Timmins, D. Tlusty, M. Tokarev, S. Trentalange, R.E. Tribble, P. Tribedy, S.K. Tripathy, B.A. Trzeciak, O.D. Tsai, T. Ullrich, D.G. Underwood, I. Upsal, G. Van Buren, G. van Nieuwenhuizen, M. Vandenbroucke, R. Varma, A.N. Vasiliev, R. Vertesi, F. Videbaek, Y.P. Viyogi, S. Vokal, S.A. Voloshin, A. Vossen, Y. Wang, F. Wang, H. Wang, J.S. Wang, G. Wang, J.C. Webb, G. Webb, L. Wen, G.D. Westfall, H. Wieman, S.W. Wissink, R. Witt, Y.F. Wu, Z. Xiao, W. Xie, K. Xin, Z. Xu, Q.H. Xu, N. Xu, H. Xu, Y.F. Xu, Y. Yang, C. Yang, S. Yang, Q. Yang, Z. Ye, P. Yepes, L. Yi, K. Yip, I.-K. Yoo, N. Yu, H. Zbroszczyk, W. Zha, J.B. Zhang, X.P. Zhang, S. Zhang, J. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhang, J.L. Zhang, F. Zhao, J. Zhao, C. Zhong, L. Zhou, X. Zhu, Y. Zoulkarneeva, M. Zyzak
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-11-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269315006450