PHENIX Collaboration
Published May 22, 2011 | Version v1
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Performance of PHENIX HBD in Au+Au central collisions

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  • 1. Tokyo University

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The electron decay branching ratios of light vector mesons are very small(~10-4), while there are many background electrons mainly originating from π0 Dalitz decays and γ conversions. A Hadron Blind Detector(HBD) has been installed into PHENIX to reject such background electrons

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