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Hard Thermal Photon Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

The recent status of hard thermal photon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions is reviewed and the current rates are presented with emphasis on corrected bremsstrahlung processes in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and quark-hadron duality. Employing Bjorken hydrodynamics with an EOS supportin...

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Autores principales: Steffen, F D, Thoma, M H
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.020
http://cds.cern.ch/record/489831
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description The recent status of hard thermal photon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions is reviewed and the current rates are presented with emphasis on corrected bremsstrahlung processes in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and quark-hadron duality. Employing Bjorken hydrodynamics with an EOS supporting the phase transition from QGP to hot hadron gas (HHG), thermal photon spectra are computed. For SPS 158 GeV Pb+Pb collisions, comparison with other theoretical results and the WA98 direct photon data indicates significant contributions due to prompt photons. Extrapolating the presented approach to RHIC and LHC experiments, predictions of the thermal photon spectrum show a QGP outshining the HHG in the high-pT-region.
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spelling cern-4898312019-09-30T06:29:59Zdoi:10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.020http://cds.cern.ch/record/489831engSteffen, F DThoma, M HHard Thermal Photon Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion CollisionsParticle Physics - PhenomenologyThe recent status of hard thermal photon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions is reviewed and the current rates are presented with emphasis on corrected bremsstrahlung processes in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and quark-hadron duality. Employing Bjorken hydrodynamics with an EOS supporting the phase transition from QGP to hot hadron gas (HHG), thermal photon spectra are computed. For SPS 158 GeV Pb+Pb collisions, comparison with other theoretical results and the WA98 direct photon data indicates significant contributions due to prompt photons. Extrapolating the presented approach to RHIC and LHC experiments, predictions of the thermal photon spectrum show a QGP outshining the HHG in the high-pT-region.hep-ph/0103044CERN-TH-2001-080HD-THEP-2001-13oai:cds.cern.ch:4898312001-03-04
spellingShingle Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Steffen, F D
Thoma, M H
Hard Thermal Photon Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
title Hard Thermal Photon Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
title_full Hard Thermal Photon Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
title_fullStr Hard Thermal Photon Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
title_full_unstemmed Hard Thermal Photon Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
title_short Hard Thermal Photon Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
title_sort hard thermal photon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions
topic Particle Physics - Phenomenology
url https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.020
http://cds.cern.ch/record/489831
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