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Electromagnetic and weak probes: theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-02-03 v3 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

An overview of the latest theoretical developments and results on electromagnetic and weak probes in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is presented. The possibilities to use electromagnetic probes, i.e., photons and dileptons, as a spectrometer, thermometer, chronometer, polarimeter, barometer, and multimeter of the collision system, as well as to explore the QCD phase diagram and to locate phase transitions such as the critical endpoint, are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2001.11232,
  title  = {Electromagnetic and weak probes: theory},
  author = {Ralf-Arno Tripolt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.11232},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Invited Plenary Talk given at Quark Matter 2019, to be published in Nuclear Physics A