Bremsstrahlung from a Microscopic Model of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v2 Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We compute bremsstrahlung arising from the acceleration of individual charged baryons and mesons during the time evolution of high-energy Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider using a microscopic transport model. We elucidate the connection between bremsstrahlung and charge stopping by colliding artificial pure proton on pure neutron nuclei. From the intensity of low energy bremsstrahlung, the time scale and the degree of stopping could be accurately extracted without measuring any hadronic observables.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0008119,
title = {Bremsstrahlung from a Microscopic Model of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions},
author = {S. M. H. Wong and M. Belkacem and J. I. Kapusta and S. A. Bass and M. Bleicher and H. Stöcker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0008119},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
25 pages using revtex with 9 embedded EPS figures, modified somewhat the discussion on the method in sect. II B, to appear in Phys. Rev. C