@article{discovery1324886, number = {6}, year = {2005}, month = {August}, journal = {PHYS REV LETT}, publisher = {AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC}, note = {{\copyright} 2005 The American Physical Society}, volume = {95}, title = {Multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions of photons in Au+Au collisions at root s(NN)=62.4 GeV}, keywords = {NUCLEAR COLLISIONS, CROSS-SECTIONS, AU COLLISIONS, DETECTOR, MODEL}, abstract = {We present the first measurement of pseudorapidity distribution of photons in the region 2.3 {\ensuremath{<}}= eta {\ensuremath{<}}= 3.7 for different centralities in Au+Au collisions at root sNN = 62.4 GeV. We find that the photon yield scales with the number of participating nucleons at all collision centralities studied. The pseudorapidity distribution of photons, dominated by pi(0) decays, has been compared to those of charged pions, photons, and inclusive charged particles from heavy-ion and nucleon-nucleon collisions at various energies. The photon production has been shown to be consistent with the energy and centrality independent limiting fragmentation scenario.}, issn = {0031-9007}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.062301}, author = {Adams, J and Aggarwal, MM and Ahammed, Z and Amonett, J and Anderson, BD and Arkhipkin, D and Averichev, GS and Badyal, SK and Bai, Y and Balewski, J and Barannikova, O and Barnby, LS and Baudot, J and Bekele, S and Belaga, VV and Bellingeri-Laurikainen, A and Bellwied, R and Berger, J and Bezverkhny, BI and Bhardwaj, S and Bhasin, A and Bhati, AK and Bichsel, H and Bielcik, J and Bielcikova, J and Billmeier, A and Bland, LC and Blyth, CO and Blyth, S and Bonner, BE and Botje, M and Boucham, A and Bouchet, J and Brandin, AV and Bravar, A and Bystersky, M and Cadman, RV and Cai, XZ and Caines, H and Sanchez, MCDL and Castillo, J and Catu, O and Cebra, D and Chajecki, Z and Chaloupka, P and Chattopadhyay, S and Chen, HF and Chen, Y and Cheng, J and Cherney, M and Chikanian, A and Christie, W and Coffin, JP and Cormier, TM and Cosentino, MR and Cramer, JG and Crawford, HJ and Das, D and Das, S and de Moura, MM and Dedovich, TG and Derevschikov, AA and Didenko, L and Dietel, T and Dogra, SM and Dong, WJ and Dong, X and Draper, JE and Du, F and Dubey, AK and Dunin, VB and Dunlop, JC and Mazumdar, MRD and Eckardt, V and Edwards, WR and Efimov, LG and Emelianov, V and Engelage, J and Eppley, G and Erazmus, B and Estienne, M and Fachini, P and Faivre, J and Fatemi, R and Fedorisin, J and Filimonov, K and Filip, P and Finch, E and Fine, V and Fisyak, Y and Fornazier, KSF and Fu, J and Gagliardi, CA and Gaillard, L and Gans, J and Ganti, MS and Geurts, F and Ghazikhanian, V and Ghosh, P and Gonzalez, JE and Gos, H and Grachov, O and Grebenyuk, O and Grosnick, D and Guertin, SM and Guo, Y and Gupta, A and Gutierrez, TD and Hallman, TJ and Hamed, A and Hardtke, D and Harris, JW and Heinz, M and Henry, TW and Hepplemann, S and Hippolyte, B and Hirsch, A and Hjort, E and Hoffmann, GW and Horner, M and Huang, HZ and Huang, SL and Hughes, EW and Humanic, TJ and Igo, G and Ishihara, A and Jacobs, P and Jacobs, WW and Jedynak, M and Jiang, H and Jones, PG and Judd, EG and Kabana, S and Kang, K and Kaplan, M and Keane, D and Kechechyan, A and Khodyrev, VY and Kiryluk, J and Kisiel, A and Kislov, EM and Klay, J and Klein, SR and Koetke, DD and Kollegger, T and Kopytine, M and Kotchenda, L and Kowalik, KL and Kramer, M and Kravtsov, P and Kravtsov, VI and Krueger, K and Kuhn, C and Kulikov, AI and Kumar, A and Kutuev, RK and Kuznetsov, AA and Lamont, MAC and Landgraf, JM and Lange, S and Laue, F and Lauret, J and Lebedev, A and Lednicky, R and Lehocka, S and LeVine, MJ and Li, C and Li, Q and Li, Y and Lin, G and Lindenbaum, SJ and Lisa, MA and Liu, F and Liu, H and Liu, J and Liu, L and Liu, QJ and Liu, Z and Ljubicic, T and Llope, WJ and Long, H and Longacre, RS and Lopez-Noriega, M and Love, WA and Lu, Y and Ludlam, T and Lynn, D and Ma, GL and Ma, JG and Ma, YG and Magestro, D and Mahajan, S and Mahapatra, DP and Majka, R and Mangotra, LK and Manweiler, R and Margetis, S and Markert, C and Martin, L and Marx, JN and Matis, HS and Matulenko, YA and McClain, CJ and McShane, TS and Meissner, F and Melnick, Y and Meschanin, A and Miller, ML and Minaev, NG and Mironov, C and Mischke, A and Mishra, DK and Mitchell, J and Mohanty, B and Molnar, L and Moore, CF and Morozov, DA and Munhoz, MG and Nandi, BK and Nayak, SK and Nayak, TK and Nelson, JM and Netrakanti, PK and Nikitin, VA and Nogach, LV and Nurushev, SB and Odyniec, G and Ogawa, A and Okorokov, V and Oldenburg, M and Olson, D and Pal, SK and Panebratsev, Y and Panitkin, SY and Pavlinov, AI and Pawlak, T and Peitzmann, T and Perevoztchikov, V and Perkins, C and Peryt, W and Petrov, VA and Phatak, SC and Picha, R and Planinic, M and Pluta, J and Porile, N and Porter, J and Poskanzer, AM and Potekhin, M and Potrebenikova, E and Potukuchi, BVKS and Prindle, D and Pruneau, C and Putschke, J and Rakness, G and Raniwala, R and Raniwala, S and Ravel, O and Ray, RL and Razin, SV and Reichhold, D and Reid, JG and Reinnarth, J and Renault, G and Retiere, F and Ridiger, A and Ritter, HG and Roberts, JB and Rogachevskiy, OV and Romero, JL and Rose, A and Roy, C and Ruan, L and Russcher, MJ and Sahoo, R and Sakrejda, I and Salur, S and Sandweiss, J and Sarsour, M and Savin, I and Sazhin, PS and Schambach, J and Scharenberg, RP and Schmitz, N and Schweda, K and Seger, J and Seyboth, P and Shahaliev, E and Shao, M and Shao, W and Sharma, M and Shen, WQ and Shestermanov, KE and Shimanskiy, SS and Sichtermann, E and Simon, F and Singaraju, RN and Smirnov, N and Snellings, R and Sood, G and Sorensen, P and Sowinski, J and Speltz, J and Spinka, HM and Srivastava, B and Stadnik, A and Stanislaus, TDS and Stock, R and Stolpovsky, A and Strikhanov, M and Stringfellow, B and Suaide, AAP and Sugarbaker, E and Suire, C and Sumbera, M and Surrow, B and Swanger, M and 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