Direct Photons in WA98

Tuesday, January 16, 11:35am, 25+5 min.



1. Title Page
2. WA98 Overview
3. Experimental Setup
4. Event Selection
5. Direct Photon Analysis Overview
6. Charged Hadron Background Rejection
7. Reconstruction Efficiency
8. Consistency Check
9. Neutron and Anti-neutron Background
10. Neutrl Pions
11. Simulation Reliability
12. Etas
13. Other Decay Photon Background Sources
14. Gamma/Pi0 Ratio in Peripheral Collisions
15. Gamma/Pi0 Ratio in Central Collisions
16. Photon Excess Comparison to Systematic Errors
17. Direct Photons (compared to pA)
18. Direct Photons (compared to theory)
19. Conclusions


Last updated 01/15/2001 by Sasha Lebedev