Electromagnetic fingerprints of the Little Bang
Nuclear Theory
2015-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Measurements of thermal photons emitted from the rapidly expanding hot and dense medium ("Little Bang") formed in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and their current theoretical interpretation, are reviewed.
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@article{arxiv.1403.8101,
title = {Electromagnetic fingerprints of the Little Bang},
author = {Ulrich W. Heinz and Jia Liu and Chun Shen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.8101},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages, 4 figures. Invited talk at Hard Probes 2013, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Nov. 4-8, 2013. To be published in the Proceedings by Nuclear Physics A