We report first measurements of e+e- pair production in the mass region 0.4<Mee<2.6  GeV/c2 at low transverse momentum (pT<0.15  GeV/c) in noncentral Au+Au collisions at sNN=200  GeV and U+U collisions at sNN=193  GeV. Significant enhancement factors, expressed as ratios of data over known hadronic contributions, are observed in the 40%–80% centrality of these collisions. The excess yields peak distinctly at low pT with a width (⟨pT2⟩) between 40 and 60  MeV/c. The absolute cross section of the excess depends weakly on centrality, while those from a theoretical model calculation incorporating an in-medium broadened ρ spectral function and radiation from a quark gluon plasma or hadronic cocktail contributions increase dramatically with an increasing number of participant nucleons. Model calculations of photon-photon interactions generated by the initial projectile and target nuclei describe the observed excess yields but fail to reproduce the pT2 distributions.

Low- pT e+e- Pair Production in Au +Au Collisions at sNN =200 GeV and U + U Collisions at sNN =193 GeV at STAR

Contin, G.;
2018-01-01

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We report first measurements of e+e- pair production in the mass region 0.4
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