Charged particle to photon ratio in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC: a different point of view

Abstract

We report an alternative explanation of the variation of charged particle to photon ratio in Cu+Cu collisions and Au+Au collisions from 1.4 $\pm$ 0.1 to 1.2 $\pm$ 0.1 at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 62.4 GeV and 200 GeV respectively in STAR experiment at RHIC. Based on the theoretical predictions and experimental results we argue that the additional contribution of direct photons at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV in both Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions are improving the ratio $\frac{N_{ch}}{N_{\gamma }}$ to 1.2 $\pm$ 0.1 from 1.4 $\pm$ 0.1.

arXiv comment20 pages , 7 figures

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