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Direct Photon Measurements with the ALICE Experiment at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-04-04 v1

Abstract

In high energy hadron collisions, direct photons can be produced in various processes and are of particular interest to study the hot QCD medium since they escape it without being affected. In these proceedings are presented the latest ALICE experiment results concerning direct photon production in proton-proton (pp), proton-lead (p-Pb) and lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions. All measurements agree with pQCD calculations at high transverse momentum (pTp_{\text{T}}) and show no direct photon excess at low pTp_{\text{T}} in small systems while a low pTp_{\text{T}} signal is found in central Pb-Pb collisions.

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@article{arxiv.1811.02220,
  title  = {Direct Photon Measurements with the ALICE Experiment at the LHC},
  author = {Erwann Masson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.02220},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures - Proceedings of Hot Quarks 2018 (Workshop for young scientists on the physics of ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions), Texel, The Netherlands, 7-14 September 2018