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We review the potential of precise measurements of electromagnetic probes in relativistic heavy-ion collisions for the theoretical understanding of strongly interacting matter. The penetrating nature of photons and dileptons implies that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-23 R. Rapp , H. van Hees

This article gives an overview of recent highlights from experimental measurements of heavy-ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies: Measurements of electroweak probes constrain both the initial collision geometry and the nuclear…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-12-17 Yvonne Pachmayer

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

Electromagnetic probes are a unique tool for studying the space-time evolution of the hot and dense matter created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Dielectrons are emitted during the entire evolution of the medium created in such…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-07 Jerome Jung

Dileptons provide direct observables of the electromagnetic current-current correlator in the hot and/or dense medium formed in heavy-ion collisions. In this article an overview is given about the status of the theoretical understanding of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 H. van Hees

Electromagnetic probes are not affected by hadronization and provide direct information about the space-time evolution of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. In particular, the measurement of thermal radiation from the quark-gluon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-12-05 Klaus Reygers

Using 3+1D viscous relativistic fluid dynamics, we show that electromagnetic probes are sensitive to the initial conditions and to the out-of-equilibrium features of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Within the same approach, we find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Gojko Vujanovic , Jean-Francois Paquet , Gabriel S. Denicol , Matthew Luzum , Bjoern Schenke , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

Ultraperipheral collisions at collider energies are a useful tool to study photon-hadron (proton/nucleus) and photon-photon interactions in a hitherto unexplored energy regime. Theoretical tools to study these processes are briefly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 G. Baur

We present recent results on bulk observables and electromagnetic probes obtained using a hybrid approach based on the Ultrarelativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics transport model with an intermediate hydrodynamic stage for the description…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-20 E. Santini , B. Bäuchle , H. Petersen , J. Steinheimer , M. Nahrgang , M. Bleicher

The study of low energy weak interactions of light quarks and leptons continues to provide important insights into both the Standard Model as well as the physics that may lie beyond it. We review the status and future prospects for low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-23 Jens Erler , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

The purpose of this contribution is to give an outlook of recent results connected with deuteron physics, with electromagnetic and strong interacting probes at intermediate energy. Special attention will be devoted to polarization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson , Michail P. Rekalo

Recent theory progresses in (3+1)D dynamical descriptions of relativistic nuclear collisions at finite baryon density are reviewed. Heavy-ion collisions at different collision energies produce strongly coupled nuclear matter to probe the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-16 Chun Shen

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, electromagnetic (EM) radiation has been used as a sensitive probe of Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) properties, owing to the smaller EM coupling relative to QCD coupling. To better understand the constraining…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Gojko Vujanovic

In the study of the quark-gluon plasma in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, hard and electromagnetic (EM) processes play an essential role as probes of the properties of the dense medium. They can be used to study a wide range of properties…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-24 Xin-Nian Wang

A review is presented of dilepton and real photon measurements in relativistic heavy ion collisions over a very broad energy range from the low energies of the BEVALAC up to the highest energies available at RHIC. The dileptons cover the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-13 Itzhak Tserruya

We present a comprehensive review of the theoretical and experimental progress in the investigation of novel high-temperature quantum chromodynamics phenomena in small systems at both the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-13 Jorge Noronha , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Wenbin Zhao

We discuss the measurement of electromagnetic radiation produced in heavy ion collisions at SPS energies. We review the low invariant mass dilepton sector, the real photon data, and the spectra of intermediate mass dimuons. Along with this,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Charles Gale

The penetrating nature of electromagnetic probes makes them an ideal candidate to study properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). A selection of recent developments in the theory and phenomenology of electromagnetic probes is discussed,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-23 Gojko Vujanovic

In this talk we describe the recently discovered rich phenomenology of elliptic flow of electromagnetic probes of the hot matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Using a hydrodynamic model for the space-time dynamics of the…

We review recent theoretical developments relevant to heavy-ion experiments carried out within the Beam Energy Scan program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Our main focus is on the description of the dynamics of systems created in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-23 Lipei Du , Agnieszka Sorensen , Mikhail Stephanov