1212.0039 (Sky D. Rolnick)

Measurement of Di-electron Continuum in Au+Au collisions at
$\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV by PHENIX using the Hadron Blind Detector    [PDF]

Sky D. Rolnick

Dielectrons play an important role in heavy ion collisions since they are produced during all stages of the collision and interact only electromagnetically. The PHENIX experiment was upgraded with the Hadron Blind Detector which provides excellent background rejection by removing pairs from both partially reconstructed Dalitz decays and photon conversions. In these proceedings we will report on the results obtained from 2009 data in p+p collisions using the HBD as well as the Au+Au results obtained in 2010.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0039