Electromagnetic Signals at RHIC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
We calculate the direct photon yield in central and mid-peripheral Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). The processes involving the propagation of jets have been convolved with a leading order treatment of jet energy loss in the medium and a one dimensional hydrodynamic expansion. The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) contribution turns out to be important, especially the in-medium conversion of a jet into a photon, for successfully describing recent photon measurements.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0512200,
title = {Electromagnetic Signals at RHIC},
author = {Simon Turbide and Charles Gale},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0512200},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Talk given at the Particle and Nuclei International Conference (PANIC 2005), 24-28 October 2005, Santa Fe, NM