| Dielectron production in C-12(+) C-12 collisions at 2 A GeV with HADES (2007) | |||||||||||||||
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| 5 pages, 2 figures.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000248251400153. Printed version published on Aug 2007.. We report on a measurement of electron pair production in C-12(+) C-12 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 π(0)-Dalitz to the ρ/w invariant-mass region. Dalitz decays of π(0) and η account for all the yield up to 0.15 GeV/c^2, 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 C-12(+) C-12 collisions at an incident energy of 1 A GeV, measured with the HADES detector, supports this scenario.. The collaboration gratefully acknowledges the support by BMBF grants 06TM970I, 06GI146I, 06F-140 and 06DR120 (Germany), by GSI (TM-FR1,GI/ME3,OF/STR), by grants GA CR 202/00/1668 and GA AS CR IAA1048304 (Czech Republic), by grant KBN 1P03B 056 29 (Poland), by INFN (Italy), by CNRS/IN2P3 (France), by grants MCYT FPA2000-2041-C02-02 and XUGA PGID T02PXIC20605PN (Spain), by grant UCY-10.3.11.12 (Cyprus), by INTAS grant 03-51-3208 and by EU contract RII3-CT-2004-506078.. Peer reviewed | |||||||||||||||
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