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Direct photons are a powerful tool for elucidating the properties of the hot QCD matter in heavy-ion collisions. They are conventionally estimated by assuming prompt photon contributions in proton-proton collisions and thermal and prompt…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-26 Akihiko Monnai

Due to their penetrating nature, dileptons are a valuable probe for the properties of the hot and/or dense medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Dilepton invariant-mass spectra provide direct access to the properties of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-02-25 H. van Hees , R. Rapp

Thermodynamical description of the system created during high energy collision requires a proper thermodynamical framework to study the distribution of particles. In this work, we have attempted to explain the transverse momentum spectra of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-31 Rohit Gupta , Shubhangi Jain , Satyajit Jena

We study fluctuations of mean transverse momentum per particle ($[p_T]$) in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. We show that the steep fall in the variance of transverse momentum fluctuation in ultracentral Pb+Pb collision serves as a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Rupam Samanta , Tribhuban Parida

Dilepton and photon production in heavy-ion collisions at SPS energies are studied in the relativistic transport model that incorporates self-consistently the change of hadron masses in dense matter. It is found that the dilepton spectra in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Q. Li , G. E. Brown , C. M. Ko

The transverse momentum distributions of identified hadrons produced in Pb-Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are studied in the low and intermediate range for $p_T<5$ GeV/c. All four spectra ($\pi, K, p, \Lambda$) can be well…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Rudolph C. Hwa , Lilin Zhu

The squared momentum transfer spectra of light mesons, $\pi^0$, $\pi^+$, $\eta$, and $\rho^0$, produced in high-energy virtual photon-proton ($\gamma^{*} p$) $\rightarrow {\rm meson + nucleon}$ process in electron-proton ($ep$) collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Qi Wang , Fu-Hu Liu , Khusniddin K. Olimov

A method has been proposed for the determination of $\gamma$ to $\pi^0$ ratio in high energy pp and nucleus-nucleus collisions at large transverse momentum ($p_T$). In photon measuring device, it is proposed that shower shape analysis is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-09-08 Subhasis Chattopadhyay

Two-particle correlation measurements and analysis are an important component of the relativistic heavy-ion physics program. In particular, particle pair-number correlations on two-dimensional transverse momentum ($p_t$) allow unique access…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-01-04 Robert L. Ray , Prabhat Bhattarai

In order to describe large transverse momentum ($p_T$) distributions observed in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions, a stochastic model in the three dimensional rapidity space is introduced. The fundamental solution of the radial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Naomichi Suzuki , Minoru Biyajima

We estimate the production of electromagnetic radiation (real and virtual photons) from the early, pre-equilibrium, stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The parton dynamics are obtained as a solution of the Boltzmann equation in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-10 Jessica Churchill , Li Yan , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

The dilepton mass distribution from pre-equilibrium matter in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions is indistinguishable from a thermally produced distribution.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 David Seibert , Tanguy Altherr

In studies of the dense medium produced in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions, photons are important hard probes, since they are not expected to be modified by the medium. The measurement of isolated prompt photon production in PbPb…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Yongsun Kim

We consider the production of lepton pairs with intermediate invariant masses, in relativistic nuclear collisions. Thermal sources are briefly discussed, as well as a newer production mechanism which involves jet-plasma interactions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Charles Gale , Simon Turbide

Applications of a simple thermal model to ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are presented. We compute abundances of various hadrons, including particles with strange quarks, the pT-spectra, and the HBT radii for the pion. Surprising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Wojciech Broniowski , Anna Baran , Wojciech Florkowski

The event-by-event p_T-fluctuations due to the temperature variation are considered. The so-called Phi-measure is computed and shown to be a linear function of the temperature variance. The fluctuations of temperature naturally explain the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Korus , St. Mrowczynski , M. Rybczynski , Z. Wlodarczyk

We predict the transverse momentum (pT) dependence of elliptic flow of thermal photons for Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. We model the system hydrodynamically, assuming formation of a thermalized quark-gluon plasma…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 Rupa Chatterjee , Evan S. Frodermann , Ulrich W. Heinz , Dinesh K. Srivastava

Transverse Momentum, $p_T$, spectra is of prime importance in order to extract crucial information about the evolution dynamics of the system of particles produced in the collider experiments. In this work, the transverse momentum spectra…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-30 Rohit Gupta , Satyajit Jena

We develop a complete and consistent description for the hadron spectra from heavy ion collisions in terms of a few collective variables, in particular temperature, longitudinal and transverse flow. To achieve a meaningful comparison with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ekkard Schnedermann , Josef Sollfrank , Ulrich Heinz

Electromagnetic radiation is emitted during the whole course of a heavy-ion collision and can escape from the collision zone without further interactions. This makes it an ideal tool to study the properties of hot and dense QCD matter. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Florian Seck , Tetyana Galatyuk , Ralf Rapp , Joachim Stroth