@article{f1097da485534af1994f305fac0a6204,
title = "Direct virtual photon production in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV",
abstract = "We report the direct virtual photon invariant yields in the transverse momentum ranges 1T<3 GeV/c and 5T<10 GeV/c at mid-rapidity derived from the dielectron invariant mass continuum region 0.10ee<0.28 GeV/c2 for 0–80% minimum-bias Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV. A clear excess in the invariant yield compared to the nuclear overlap function TAA scaled p+p reference is observed in the pT range 1T<3 GeV/c. For pT>6 GeV/c the production follows TAA scaling. Model calculations with contributions from thermal radiation and initial hard parton scattering are consistent within uncertainties with the direct virtual photon invariant yield.",
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 X. Chen and Chen, {J. H.} and J. Cheng and M. Cherney and W. Christie and G. Contin and Crawford, {H. J.}",
year = "2017",
month = jul,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1016/j.physletb.2017.04.050",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "770",
pages = "451--458",
journal = "Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics",
issn = "0370-2693",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
}