Abstract
We report on a measurement of electron pair production in 12C+12C collisions at an incident energy of 2 GeV per nucleon with the HADES spectrometer. The measured pair production probabilities span over five orders of magnitude from the π0-Dalitz to the ρ/ω invariant-mass region. Dalitz decays of π0 and η account for all the yield up to 0.15 GeV/c2, but for only about 50% above this mass. The excess yield is in agreement with the former DLS result if one assumes that it scales with beam energy like pion production. A preliminary analysis of 12C+12C collisions at an incident energy of 1 A GeV, measured with the HADES detector, supports this scenario.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | S152 |
| Pages (from-to) | S1041-S1045 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| State | Published - 1 Aug 2007 |