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The direct photon emission model in relativistic nuclear colliders has been improved in recent years for reducing the discrepancy between theoretical estimations and experimental data and for understanding the properties of the QCD matter.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Akihiko Monnai

We show that the dilepton spectra measured by the CERES collaboration in Pb + Au interactions for various charge multiplicities can be reproduced by a hadronic initial state with reduction in the masses of the vector mesons in the thermal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sourav Sarkar , Jan-e Alam , T. Hatsuda

A review on experimental results for direct photon production in heavy ion reactions is given. A brief survey of early direct photon limits from SPS experiments is presented. The first measurement of direct photons in heavy ion reactions…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas Peitzmann

We calculate the thermal photon distribution from the hot QCD matter produced by high energy nuclear collisions based on a hydrodynamical model, and compare it with the recent experimental data obtained by CERN WA80. Through the asymptotic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Tetsufumi Hirano , Shin Muroya , Mikio Namiki

Photons are a penetrating probe of the hot and dense medium created in heavy-ion collisions. We present state-of-the-art calculations of viscous photon emission from nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC. Thermal photons anisotropic flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Chun Shen , Ulrich Heinz , Jean-Francois Paquet , Charles Gale

In-medium interactions of a particle in a hot plasma are considered in the framework of thermal field theory. The formalism to calculate gauge invariant rates for photon and dilepton production from the medium is given. In the application…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Quack , P. A. Henning

Room temperature single photon sources (SPS) are crucial for developing the next generation quantum technologies. Quantum dots (QDs), recently, have been reported as promising materials as SPS at room temperature. By optimizing the single…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Kush Kaushik , Jiban Mondal , Ritesh Kumar Bag , Shagun Sharma , Abdul Salam , Chayan Kanti Nandi

The production of soft dileptons in a thermal mesonic medium is discussed in the context of recent CERN experimental data reported by the CERES Collaboration. We do not intend to give a general and critical review, but instead concentrate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 R. Baier , M. Dirks , K. Redlich

Considering the propagation of off-shell particles in the framework of thermal field theory, we present the general formalism for the calculation of the production rate of soft photons and dileptons from a hot plasma. This approach is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 P. A. Henning , E. Quack

The emission of hard real photons from thermalized expanding hadronic matter is dominated by the initial high-temperature expansion phase. Therefore, a measurement of photon emission in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions provides…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thorsten Renk

The viscous correction to thermal photon production at leading log order is calculated and integrated over the space-time evolution of a hydrodynamic simulation of heavy-ion collisions. The resulting transverse momentum spectra and elliptic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-05-25 Kevin Dusling

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 parameters obtained from the theoretical analysis of the single photon spectra observed by the WA98 collaboration at SPS energies have been used to evaluate the two photon correlation functions. The single photon spectra and the two…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan-e Alam , Bedangadas Mohanty , Pradip Roy , Sourav Sarkar , Bikash Sinha

Nanophotonic quantum information processing systems require spatially ordered, spectrally uniform single photon sources (SPSs) integrated on-chip with co-designed light manipulating elements providing emission rate enhancement, emitted…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-09 Jiefei Zhang , Swarnabha Chattaraj , Siyuan Lu , Anupam Madhukar

We briefly recall the tremendous strides in the studies of the parton cascade model made by Klaus Geiger. Next, we argue that photons may provide confirmation of several of these ideas. Thus we know that, copious internetted partonic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Dinesh Kumar Srivastava

We consider the thermal production of dileptons and photons at temperatures above the critical temperature in QCD. We use a model where color excitations are suppressed by a small value of the Polyakov loop, the semi Quark-Gluon Plasma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 C. Gale , Y. Hidaka , S. Jeon , S. Lin , J. -F. Paquet , R. D. Pisarski , D. Satow , V. V. Skokov , G. Vujanovic

Direct photons are a powerful tool to study the hot and dense matter created in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC, since they are created in the different stages of the collision. Since they do not interact via the strong force, they can travel…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-05-31 Baldo Sahlmueller

The observed large elliptic flow ($v_2$) of direct photons in relativistic heavy ion collisions challenges us to explain. In this paper we consider only two sources of direct photons, prompt photons and thermal photons. Prompt photons are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-03 Fu-Ming Liu , Sheng-Xu Liu , Klaus Werner

A measurement of direct photon production in 208Pb + 208Pb collisions at 158 A GeV has been carried out in the CERN WA98 experiment. The invariant yield of direct photons in central collisions is extracted as a function of transverse…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-09-08 WA98 Collaboration , M. M. Aggarwal

The thermal-photon emission from strongly coupled gauge theories at finite temperature via the bottom-up models in holographic QCD in the deconfined phase is studied. The models are constructed to approximately reproduce the electric…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-19 Ioannis Iatrakis , Elias Kiritsis , Chun Shen , Di-Lun Yang