@article{b77780a41e054916b97b0203590eb87c,
title = "Coherent diffractive photoproduction of ρ0 mesons on gold nuclei at 200 GeV/nucleon-pair at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider",
abstract = "The STAR Collaboration reports on the photoproduction of π+π- pairs in gold-gold collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV/nucleon-pair. These pion pairs are produced when a nearly real photon emitted by one ion scatters from the other ion. We fit the π+π- invariant-mass spectrum with a combination of ρ0 and ω resonances and a direct π+π- continuum. This is the first observation of the ω in ultraperipheral collisions, and the first measurement of ρ-ω interference at energies where photoproduction is dominated by Pomeron exchange. The ω amplitude is consistent with the measured γp→ωp cross section, a classical Glauber calculation, and the ω→π+π- branching ratio. The ω phase angle is similar to that observed at much lower energies, showing that the ρ-ω phase difference does not depend significantly on photon energy. The ρ0 differential cross section dσ/dt exhibits a clear diffraction pattern, compatible with scattering from a gold nucleus, with two minima visible. The positions of the diffractive minima agree better with the predictions of a quantum Glauber calculation that does not include nuclear shadowing than with a calculation that does include shadowing.",
author = "{STAR Collaboration} and L. Adamczyk and Adkins, {J. K.} and G. Agakishiev and Aggarwal, {M. M.} and Z. Ahammed and Ajitanand, {N. N.} and I. Alekseev and Anderson, {D. M.} and R. Aoyama and A. Aparin and D. Arkhipkin and Aschenauer, {E. C.} and Ashraf, {M. U.} and A. Attri and Averichev, {G. S.} and X. Bai and V. Bairathi and A. Behera and R. Bellwied and A. Bhasin and Bhati, {A. K.} and P. Bhattarai and J. Bielcik and J. Bielcikova and Bland, {L. C.} and Bordyuzhin, {I. G.} and J. Bouchet and Brandenburg, {J. D.} and Brandin, {A. V.} and D. Brown and I. Bunzarov and J. Butterworth and H. Caines and {Calder{\'o}n De La Barca S{\'a}nchez}, M. and Campbell, {J. M.} and D. Cebra and I. Chakaberia and P. Chaloupka and Z. Chang and N. Chankova-Bunzarova and A. Chatterjee and S. Chattopadhyay and X. Chen and Chen, {J. H.} and X. Chen and J. Cheng and M. Cherney and W. Christie and G. Contin and Y. Yang",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the RHIC Operations Group and RCF at BNL, the NERSC Center at LBNL, and the Open Science Grid consortium for providing resources and support. This work was supported in part by the Office of Nuclear Physics within the U.S. DOE Office of Science, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Science, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the Chinese Ministry of Education, the National Research Foundation of Korea, GA and MSMT of the Czech Republic, Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India; the National Science Centre of Poland, National Research Foundation of Croatia, the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, RosAtom of Russia and German Bundesministerium fur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung and Technologie (BMBF), and the Helmholtz Association. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 American Physical Society.",
year = "2017",
month = nov,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevC.96.054904",
language = "English",
volume = "96",
journal = "Physical Review C",
issn = "2469-9985",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "5",
}