Abstract
The versatility of RHIC allowed the PHENIX collaboration to measure low momentum direct photons from small systems, such as p+p, p+A, d+Au at sNN=200GeV as well as from large A+A systems, such as Au+Au and Cu+Cu at 200GeV and Au+Au at 62.4GeV and 39GeV. In these measurements PHENIX has discovered a large excess over the scaled p+p yield of direct photons in A+A collisions, and a non-zero excess over the scaled p+p yield in central p+A collisions. Another PHENIX discovery is that at low-pT the integrated yield of direct photons, dNγ/dy, from large systems follows a universal scaling as a function of the charged-particle multiplicity, (dNch/dη)α, with α = 1.25. The observed scaling properties of direct photons from these systems show that the photon production yield increases faster than the charged-particle multiplicity.
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