Inclusive pi(0), eta, and direct photon production at high transverse momentum in p plus p and d plus Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV

B. Abelev,M. M. Aggarwal,Z. Ahammed,A. V. Alakhverdyants,B.D. Anderson,D. Arkhipkin,G. S. Averichev,J. Balewski,O. Barannikova,L. S. Barnby,S. Baumgart,D. R. Beavis,R. Bellwied,F. Benedosso,M. J. Betancourt,R. R. Betts,A. Bhasin,A. K. Bhati,H. Bichsel,J. Bielcik,J. Bielcikova,B. Biritz,L. C. Bland,B. E. Bonner,J. Bouchet,E. Braidot,A. V. Brandin,A. Bridgeman,E. Bruna,S. Bueltmann,I. Bunzarov,T. P. Burton,X. Cai,H. Caines,Mcdlb Sanchez,O. Catu,D. Cebra,R. Cendejas,M. C. Cervantes,Z. Chajecki,P. Chaloupka,S. Chattopadhyay,H. F. Chen,J. H. Chen,J.Y. Chen,J. Cheng,M. Cherney,A. Chikanian,K. Choi,W. Christie,P. Chung,R. F. Clarke,M. J. M. Codrington,R. Corliss,J. G. Cramer,H. J. Crawford,D. Das,S. Dash,Ad Leyva,L. C. De Silva,R. Debbe,T. G. Dedovich,M. DePhillips,A. A. Derevschikov,R. D. De Souza,L. Didenko,P. Djawotho,S. M. Dogra,X. Dong,J. L. Drachenberg,J. E. Draper,J. C. Dunlop,M. R. D. Mazumdar,L. G. Efimov,E. Elhalhuli,M. Elnimr,J. Engelage,G. Eppley,B. Erazmus,M. Estienne,L. Eun,P. Fachini,R. Fatemi,J. Fedorisin,R. G. Fersch,P. Filip,E. Finch,V. Fine,Y. Fisyak,C. A. Gagliardi,D. R. Gangadharan,M. S. Ganti,E. Garcia-Solis,A. Geromitsos,Frank Jm Geurts,V. Ghazikhanian,P. Ghosh,Y. N. Gorbunov,A. Gordon,O. G. Grebenyuk,D. Grosnick,B. Grube,S. M. Guertin,A. Gupta,N. Gupta,W. Guryn,B. Haag,T. J. Hallman,A. Hamed,L. X. Han,J. W. Harris,J. P. Hays-Wehle,M. Heinz,S. Heppelmann,A. Hirsch,E. Hjort,A. M. Hoffman,G. W. Hoffmann,D. J. Hofman,R. S. Hollis,H. Z. Huang,T. J. Humanic,L. Huo,G. Igo,A. Iordanova,P. Jacobs,W. W. Jacobs,P. Jakl,C. Jena,F. Jin,C. L. Jones,P. G. Jones,J. Joseph,E. G. Judd,S. Kabana,K. Kajimoto,K. Kang,J. Kapitan,K. Kauder,D. Keane,A. Kechechyan,D. Kettler,D. P. Kikola,J. Kiryluk,A. Kisiel,S. R. Klein,A. G. Knospe,A. Kocoloski,D. D. Koetke,T. Kollegger,J. Konzer,M. Kopytine,I. Koralt,W. Korsch,L. Kotchenda,V. Kouchpil,P. Kravtsov,K. Krueger,M. Krus,L. Kumar,P. Kurnadi,M. A. C. Lamont,J. M. Landgraf,S. LaPointe,J. Lauret,A. Lebedev,R. Lednický,C. H. Lee,J. Lee,William Axel Leight,M. J. LeVine,C. Li,L. Li,N. Li,W. D. Li,X. L. Li,Y. Li,Z. M. Li,G. Lin,S. J. Lindenbaum,M. A. Lisa,F. Liu,H. Liu,J. Liu,T. Ljubicic,W. J. Llope,R. S. Longacre,W. A. Love,Y. Lu,G. L. Ma,Y. G. Ma,D.P. Mahapatra,R. Majka,O. Mall,L. K. Mangotra,R. Manweiler,S. Margetis,C. Markert,H. Masui,H. S. Matis,Yu.A. Matulenko,D. McDonald,T. S. McShane,A. Meschanin,Richard G. Milner,N. G. Minaev,S. Mioduszewski,A. Mischke,M. Mitrovski,B. Mohanty,M. M. Mondal,D. A. Morozov,M. G. Munhoz,B. K. Nandi,C. Nattrass,T. K. Nayak,J. M. Nelson,P. K. Netrakanti,M. J. Ng,L. V. Nogach,S. B. Nurushev,G. Odyniec,A. Ogawa,H. Okada,V. Okorokov,D. Olson,M. Pachr,B. S. Page,S. K. Pal,Y. Pandit,Y. Panebratsev,T. Pawlak,T. Peitzmann,V. Perevoztchikov,C. Perkins,W. Peryt,S. C. Phatak,P. Pile,M. Planinic,M. Płoskoń,J. Pluta,D. Plyku,N. Poljak,A. M. Poskanzer,B. Potukuchi,C. B. Powell,D. Prindle,C. Pruneau,N. K. Pruthi,P. Pujahari,J. Putschke,R. Raniwala,S. Raniwala,R. L. Ray,R. Redwine,R. G. Reed,J. M. Rehberg,H. G. Ritter,Jay Roberts,O. V. Rogachevskiy,J. L. Romero,A. Rose,C. Roy,L. Ruan,M. J. Russcher,R. Sahoo,S. Sakai,I. Sakrejda,T. Sakuma,S. Salur,J. Sandweiss,E. Sangaline,J. Schambach,R. P. Scharenberg,N. Schmitz,T. Schuster,J. Seele,J. Seger,I. Selyuzhenkov,P. Seyboth,E. Shahaliev,M. Shao,M. Sharma,S. S. Shi,E. P. Sichtermann,F. Simon,R. Singaraju,M. J. Skoby,N Smirnov,P. Sorensen,J. Sowinski,H. M. Spinka,B. Srivastava,T. D. S. Stanislaus,D. Staszak,J. R. Stevens,R. Stock,M. Strikhanov,B. Stringfellow,A. A. P. Suaide,M. C. Suarez,N. L. Subba,M. Sumbera,X. M. Sun,Y. Sun,Z. J. Sun,B. Surrow,T. J. M. Symons,A. S. de Toledo,J. Takahashi,A. H. Tang,Z. Tang,L. H. Tarini,T. Tarnowsky,D. Thein,J. H. Thomas,J. Tian,A. R. Timmins,S. Timoshenko,D. Tlusty,M. Tokarev,T. A. Trainor,V. N. Tram,S. Trentalange,R. E. Tribble,O. D. Tsai,J. Ulery,T. Ullrich,D. G. Underwood,G. Van Buren,G. van Nieuwenhuizen,J. A. Vanfossen,R. Varma,G. M. S. Vasconcelos,A.N. Vasiliev,F. Videbaek,Y. P. Viyogi,S. Vokal,S. A. Voloshin,M. Wada,M. Walker,F. Wang,G. Wang,H. Wang,J. S. Wang,Q. Wang,X.L. Wang,X. L. Wang,Y. Wang,G. Webb,J. C. Webb,G. D. Westfall,C. Whitten,H. Wieman,E. Wingfield,S. W. Wissink,R. Witt,Y. Wu,W. Xie,N. Xu,Q. H. Xu,W. Xu,Y. Xu,Z. Xu,L. Xue,Y. Yang,P. Yepes,K. Yip,I. K. Yoo,Q. Yue,M. Zawisza,H. Zbroszczyk,W. Zhan,S. Zhang,W. M. Zhang,X. P. Zhang,Y. Zhang,Z. P. Zhang,J. Zhao,C. Zhong,J. Zhou,W. Zhou,X. Zhu,Y.H. Zhu,R. Zoulkarneev,Y. Zoulkarneeva

Inclusive pi(0), eta, and direct photon production at high transverse momentum in p plus p and d plus Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV

2010

We report a measurement of high-p(T) inclusive pi(0), eta, and direct photon production in p + p and d + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV at midrapidity (0 gamma gamma were detected in the barrel electromagnetic calorimeter of the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The eta -> gamma gamma decay was also observed and constituted the first eta measurement by STAR. The first direct photon cross-section measurement by STAR is also presented; the signal was extracted statistically by subtracting the pi(0), eta, and omega(782) decay background from the inclusive photon distribution observed in the calorimeter. The analysis is described in detail, and the results are found to be in good agreement with earlier measurements and with next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations.

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