Centrality Dependence of Direct Photon Production inSNN=200GeVAu+AuCollisions

Abstract
The first measurement of direct photons in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200GeV is presented. The direct photon signal is extracted as a function of the Au+Au collision centrality and compared to next-to-leading order perturbative quantum chromodynamics calculations. The direct photon yield is shown to scale with the number of nucleon-nucleon collisions for all centralities.
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