Measurement of e+e- Momentum and Angular Distributions from Linearly Polarized Photon Collisions
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National Science Foundation
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.052302
Document Type
Research Article
Publication Title
Physical Review Letters
Publication Date
7-30-2021
doi
10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.052302
Abstract
The Breit-Wheeler process which produces matter and antimatter from photon collisions is experimentally investigated through the observation of 6085 exclusive electron-positron pairs in ultraperipheral Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV. The measurements reveal a large fourth-order angular modulation of cos4Δφ=(16.8±2.5)% and smooth invariant mass distribution absent of vector mesons (φ, ω, and ρ) at the experimental limit of ≤0.2% of the observed yields. The differential cross section as a function of e+e- pair transverse momentum P⊥ peaks at low value with ⟨P⊥2
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APA Citation
Adam, J.
Adamczyk, L.
Adams, J.
Adkins, J.
...
(2021). Measurement of e+e- Momentum and Angular Distributions from Linearly Polarized Photon Collisions. Physical Review Letters, 127(5),
10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.052302
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/2401
MLA Citation
Adam, J., et al.
"Measurement of e+e- Momentum and Angular Distributions from Linearly Polarized Photon Collisions." Physical Review Letters, vol. 127,no. 5, 2021,
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/2401