Dielectron production in central Pb-Pb collisions at $$\sqrt{s_{NN}}$$ = 5.02TeV
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH
- INFN, Sezione di Torino
- Central China Normal University
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università
- University of Houston
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
- INFN, Sezione di Bari
- Technische Universität München
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
- University of Derby
- Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- INFN, Sezione di Padova
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo
- Yale University
- University of Tokyo
- INFN, Sezione di Catania
- Sungkyunkwan University
- Gangneung-Wonju National University
- University of Science and Technology of China
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore
- Université Paris-Saclay, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN)
- AGH University of Krakow
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics
- Physics Department, University of Jammu
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin'
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics
- Gauhati University, Department of Physics
- HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics
- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory
- University of Liverpool
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT)
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
- Institute of Space Science (ISS)
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
- The University of Texas at Austin
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia; INFN, Sezione di Pavia
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Inha University
- Università di Brescia; INFN, Sezione di Pavia
- Politecnico di Bari; Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin'
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI)
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation; University of the Witwatersrand
- Dipartimento di Fisica ‘E.R. Caianiello’ dell'Università
- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa
- Universitatea Nationala de Stiinta si Tehnologie Politehnica Bucuresti
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH; Central China Normal University
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics
- University of Tsukuba
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab
- Università del Piemonte Orientale; INFN, Sezione di Torino
- Universidade Federal do ABC
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute
- Università di Brescia
- Department of Physics, University of California
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN; Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN)
- University of Cape Town
- Warsaw University of Technology
- Physics Department, Panjab University
- Technical University of Košice
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation
- INFN, Sezione di Trieste
- Saga University
- Chicago State University
- University of Kansas
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH; INFN, Sezione di Torino
- University of Tennessee
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science
- Wayne State University
- University of Split
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN; A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation
- Yonsei University
- University of Jyväskylä
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV)
- Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik
- Ohio State University
- COMSATS University Islamabad
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics; Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- National Research and Innovation Agency - BRIN
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University
- China Institute of Atomic Energy
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH
- Suranaree University of Technology
- Slovak Academy of Sciences
- KTO Karatay University
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); Warsaw University of Technology
- Zentrum für Technologie und Transfer (ZTT)
- Jeonbuk National University
- Department of Physics, Sejong University
- California Polytechnic State University
- Sofia University
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham; Slovak Academy of Sciences
- National Centre for Nuclear Research
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3; University of Derby
- University of South-Eastern Norway
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); Technische Universität München
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN)
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH; University of Science and Technology of China
- Fudan University
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab; National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina; INFN, Sezione di Catania
- Università degli Studi di Foggia; INFN, Sezione di Bari
- University of the Witwatersrand
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)
- University of Cape Town; iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN; Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
- Chungbuk National University
- China University of Geosciences
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3; Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Creighton University
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory; University of Tennessee
- National Nuclear Research Center
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute
- Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Inha University
- Nara Women's University (NWU)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina; INFN, Sezione di Catania
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia
- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- INFN, Sezione di Padova; Central China Normal University
The first measurement of the 𝑒+𝑒− pair production at midrapidity and low invariant mass in central Pb-Pb collisions at $$\sqrt{s_{NN}}$$ = 5.02 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider is presented. The yield of 𝑒+𝑒− pairs is compared with a cocktail of expected hadronic decay contributions in the invariant mass (𝑚𝑒𝑒) and pair transverse momentum (𝑝T,𝑒𝑒) ranges 𝑚𝑒𝑒 < 3.5 GeV/𝑐2 and 𝑝T,𝑒𝑒 < 8 GeV/𝑐. For 0.18 < 𝑚𝑒𝑒 < 0.5 GeV/𝑐2 the ratio of data to the cocktail of hadronic contributions amounts to 1.40 ± 0.11(stat.) ± 0.23 (syst.) ± 0.16 (cocktail) and 1.42 ± 0.11 (stat.) ± 0.23 (syst.)$$^{+0.24}_{−0.29}$$ (cocktail), including or not including medium effects in the estimation of the heavy-flavor background, respectively. It is consistent with predictions from two different models for an additional contribution of thermal 𝑒+𝑒− pairs from the hadronic and partonic phases. In the intermediate-mass range (1.2 < 𝑚𝑒𝑒 < 2.6 GeV/𝑐2), the pair transverse impact parameter of the 𝑒+𝑒− pairs (DCA𝑒𝑒, where “DCA” denotes “distance of closest approach”) is used for the first time in Pb-Pb collisions to separate displaced dielectrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays from a possible (thermal) contribution produced at the interaction point. The data are consistent with a suppression of 𝑒+𝑒− pairs from $$𝑐\bar{𝑐}$$ and an additional prompt component. Finally, the first direct-photon measurement in the 10% most central Pb-Pb collisions at $$\sqrt{s_{NN}}$$ = 5.02 TeV is reported via the study of virtual direct photons in the transverse momentum range 1 < 𝑝T < 5 GeV/𝑐. A model including prompt photons, as well as photons from the preequilibrium and fluid-dynamic phases, can reproduce the result, while being at the upper edge of the data uncertainties.
- Research Organization:
- Academy of Finland; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Yale University, New Haven, CT (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Academy of Finland; Czech Science Foundation; European Research Council; USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP) (SC-26)
- Contributing Organization:
- ALICE Collaboration
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; SC0004168
- OSTI ID:
- 3011943
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. C, Journal Name: Physical Review. C Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 112; ISSN 2469-9985; ISSN 2469-9993
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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