Measurement of Direct Photons in pp and Pb-Pb Collisions with ALICE

Abstract

The measurement of the direct photon transverse momentum spectrum in Pb-Pb collisions at \unit[$\sqrt{s_{{}_{NN}}}=2.76]TeV$ with data taken by the ALICE experiment is presented. The measurement shows a clear direct-photon signal for 0-40% most central collisions below \unit[4]{GeV/$\mathrm{c}$} that can not be described by next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD (NLO pQCD) calculations. Above this value of $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ the result is in agreement with pQCD predictions. The low $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ signal is expected to have thermal photon contributions. The inverse slope parameter of an exponential fit is extracted as $T_{\mathrm{LHC}}=\unit[304\pm 51^{\mathrm{syst+stat}}]{MeV}$. For a baseline measurement the analysis is performed for proton-proton collisions at \unit[$\sqrt{s}=7]TeV$ and for peripheral (40-80%) Pb-Pb collisions. Both results show no low $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ direct-photon signal and are in agreement with pQCD calculations.

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