Direct photon production in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV
ALICE Collaboration. (2016). Direct photon production in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV. Physics Letters B, 754, 235-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.01.020
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Direct photon production at mid-rapidity in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV was studied in the
transverse momentum range 0.9 < pT < 14 GeV/c. Photons were detected with the highly segmented
electromagnetic calorimeter PHOS and via conversions in the ALICE detector material with the e+e−
pair reconstructed in the central tracking system. The results of the two methods were combined and
direct photon spectra were measured for the 0–20%, 20–40%, and 40–80% centrality classes. For all three
classes, agreement was found with perturbative QCD calculations for pT 5 GeV/c. Direct photon spectra
down to pT ≈ 1 GeV/c could be extracted for the 20–40% and 0–20% centrality classes. The significance
of the direct photon signal for 0.9 < pT < 2.1 GeV/c is 2.6σ for the 0–20% class. The spectrum in this
pT range and centrality class can be described by an exponential with an inverse slope parameter of
(297 ± 12stat ± 41syst) MeV. State-of-the-art models for photon production in heavy-ion collisions agree
with the data within uncertainties.
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