First measurement of proton-induced low-momentum dielectron radiation off cold nuclear matter

被引:38
作者
Agakishiev, G. [7 ]
Balanda, A. [4 ]
Belver, D. [18 ]
Belyaev, A. [4 ,7 ]
Berger-Chen, J. C. [8 ]
Blanco, A. [3 ]
Boehmer, M. [9 ]
Boyard, J. L. [16 ]
Cabanelas, P. [18 ]
Chernenko, S. [7 ]
Dybczak, A.
Epple, E. [8 ]
Fabbietti, L. [8 ]
Fateev, O. [7 ]
Finocchiaro, P. [2 ]
Fonte, P. [3 ,23 ]
Friese, J. [9 ]
Froehlich, I. [1 ]
Galatyuk, T. [1 ,24 ]
Garzon, J. A. [18 ]
Gernhaeuser, R. [9 ]
Goebel, K. [1 ]
Golubeva, M. [12 ]
Gonzalez-Diaz, D. [19 ]
Guber, F. [12 ]
Gumberidze, M. [16 ]
Heinz, T. [5 ]
Hennino, T. [16 ]
Holzmann, R. [5 ]
Ierusalimov, A. [7 ]
Iori, I. [11 ,25 ]
Ivashkin, A. [12 ]
Jurkovic, M. [9 ]
Kaempfer, B. [26 ]
Karavicheva, T. [12 ]
Koenig, I. [5 ]
Koenig, W. [5 ]
Kolb, B. W. [5 ]
Kornakov, G. [18 ]
Kotte, R. [6 ]
Krasa, A. [17 ]
Krizek, F. [17 ]
Kruecken, R. [9 ]
Kuc, H. [16 ]
Kuehn, W. [10 ]
Kugler, A. [17 ]
Kurepin, A. [12 ]
Ladygin, V. [7 ]
Lalik, R. [8 ]
Lang, S. [5 ]
机构
[1] Goethe Univ, Inst Kernphys, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany
[2] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nacl Sud, I-95125 Catania, Italy
[3] Lab Instrumentacao & Fis Expt Particulas, LIP, P-3004516 Coimbra, Portugal
[4] Jagiellonian Univ, Smoluchowski Inst Phys, PL-30059 Krakow, Poland
[5] GSI Helmholtzzentrum Schwerionenforsch GmbH, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany
[6] Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf, Inst Strahlenphys, D-01314 Dresden, Germany
[7] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna 141980, Russia
[8] Excellence Cluster Origin & Struct Universe, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[9] Tech Univ Munich, Phys Dept E12, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[10] Univ Giessen, Inst Phys 2, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
[11] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[12] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312, Russia
[13] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117218, Russia
[14] Frederick Univ, CY-1036 Nicosia, Cyprus
[15] Univ Cyprus, Dept Phys, CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
[16] Univ Paris Sud, CNRS, IN2P3, Inst Phys Nucl UMR 8608, F-91406 Orsay, France
[17] Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Nucl Phys, CZ-25068 Rez, Czech Republic
[18] Univ Santiago de Compostela, Dpto Fis Particulas, LabCAF, Santiago De Compostela 15706, Spain
[19] Tech Univ Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
[20] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[21] Univ Turin, Dipartimento Fis Gen, I-10125 Turin, Italy
[22] Univ Turin, INFN, I-10125 Turin, Italy
[23] ISEC Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
[24] ExtreMe Matter Inst EMMI, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany
[25] Univ Milan, Dipartimento Fis, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[26] Tech Univ Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
[27] Univ Houston, Houston, TX USA
关键词
VECTOR-MESONS;
D O I
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.004
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present data on dielectron emission in proton induced reactions on a Nb target at 3.5 GeV kinetic beam energy measured with HADES installed at GSI. The data represent the first high statistics measurement of proton-induced dielectron radiation from cold nuclear matter in a kinematic regime, where strong medium effects are expected. Combined with the good mass resolution of 2%, it is the first measurement sensitive to changes of the spectral functions of vector mesons, as predicted by models for hadrons at rest or small relative momenta. Comparing the e(+)e(-) invariant mass spectra to elementary p + p data, we observe for e(+)e(-) momenta P-ee < 0.8 GeV/c a strong modification of the shape of the spectrum, which we attribute to an additional rho-like contribution and a decrease of omega yield. These opposite trends are tentatively interpreted as a strong coupling of the rho meson to baryonic resonances and an absorption of the omega meson, which are two aspects of in-medium modification of vector mesons. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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