Jet-Tagged Back-Scattering Photons For Quark Gluon Plasma Tomography
Nuclear Theory
2017-02-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Several sources of direct photons are known to contribute to the total photon yield in high energy nuclear collisions. All of these photons carry characteristic and important information on the initial nuclei or the hot and dense fireball created in the collision. We investigate the possibility to separate photons from back-scattering of high momentum quarks off quark gluon plasma from other sources. Their unique kinematics can be utilized through high energy jet triggers on the away-side. We discuss the basic idea and estimate the feasibility of such a measurement at RHIC and LHC.
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@article{arxiv.1208.6235,
title = {Jet-Tagged Back-Scattering Photons For Quark Gluon Plasma Tomography},
author = {Rainer J. Fries and S. De and D. K. Srivastava},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.6235},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Contribution to Hard Probes 2012; 4 pages, 4 figures