Observation of pi+pi-pi+pi- photoproduction in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions at [sqrt]sNN=200 GeV at the STAR detector
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Surrow, Bernd
Balewski, Jan T.
Betancourt, Michael Joseph
Corliss, Ross Cameron
Hays-Wehle, James Prewitt
Jones, Christopher LaDon
Kocoloski, Adam Philip
Leight, William Axel
Sakuma, Tai
Seele, Joseph Patrick
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Observation of π+π-π+π- photoproduction in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions at √sNN=200 GeV at the STAR detector
Date Issued
April 2010
Journal
Physical Review C
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
STAR Collaboration et al. “Observation of pi + pi - pi + pi - photoproduction in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions at sNN=200 GeV at the STAR detector.” Physical Review C 81.4 (2010): 044901. © 2010 The American Physical Society.
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Abstract
We present a measurement of pi+pi-pi+pi-photonuclear production in ultraperipheral Au-Au collisions at [sqrt]sNN=200 GeV from the STAR experiment. The pi+pi-pi+pi- final states are observed at low transverse momentum and are accompanied by mutual nuclear excitation of the beam particles. The strong enhancement of the production cross section at low transverse momentum is consistent with coherent photoproduction. The pi+pi-pi+pi- invariant mass spectrum of the coherent events exhibits a broad peak around 1540±40 MeV/c2 with a width of 570±60 MeV/c2, in agreement with the photoproduction data for the ρ0(1700). We do not observe a corresponding peak in the pi+pi- final state and measure an upper limit for the ratio of the branching fractions of the ρ0(1700) to pi+pi- and pi+pi-pi+pi- of 2.5% at 90% confidence level. The ratio of ρ0(1700) and ρ0(770) coherent production cross sections is measured to be 13.4±0.8stat.±4.4syst.%.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.81.044901
