Photons from nuclear collisions at RHIC energies
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1 Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We model the hot and dense strongly interacting mater produced in high energy heavy ion collisions using relativistic hydrodynamics. Several different sources of real photons produced during these collisions are considered and their relative importance is assessed. We include contributions from QCD jets, which are allowed to loose and gain energy as they proceed through the hot matter. This is treated within the AMY formalism. We obtain photon spectra, R_{AA}, and v_2 in agreement with measurements performed by the PHENIX collaboration.
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@article{arxiv.0806.0610,
title = {Photons from nuclear collisions at RHIC energies},
author = {Charles Gale and Simon Turbide and Evan Frodermann and Ulrich Heinz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0610},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, talk given at Quark Matter 2008, Feb. 4-10, 2008, Jaipur, India