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Highly energetic jets and photons are complementary probes for the kinematics and the topology of nuclear collisions. Jets are collimated sprays of charged and neutral particles, which are produced in the fragmentation of hard scattered…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Rüdiger Haake

Dileptons produced during heavy-ion collisions represent a unique probe of the QCD phase diagram, and convey information about the state of the strongly interacting system at the moment their preceding off-shell photon is created. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-08 Jessica Churchill , Lipei Du , Charles Gale , Greg Jackson , Sangyong Jeon

We calculate the transverse momentum and invariant mass dependence of elliptic flow of thermal dileptons for Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The system is described using hydrodynamics, with the assumption of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rupa Chatterjee , Dinesh K. Srivastava , Ulrich W. Heinz , Charles Gale

The formalism of photon and dilepton productions in a thermal bath are discussed in the frame work of finite temperature field theory. The emission rate has been expressed in terms of the discontinuities or imaginary part of the photon self…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-07 Jan-e Alam , Sourav Sarkar , Pradip Roy , Bikash Sinha

We highlight some of the developments in the theory and the observation of the electromagnetic radiation, thermal and otherwise, emitted in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-29 Charles Gale

Photons resulting from jet-medium interactions offer the opportunity of studying the evolving quark distribution in a heavy ion collision. The spectra of jet-medium photons is presented within the JETSCAPE framework for two different energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-03 Rouzbeh Modarresi Yazdi , Shuzhe Shi , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon

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 review various production mechanisms of photons and small mass dileptons at large transverse momentum in heavy ion collisions at the LHC. Their relevance as a signal for quark-gluon plasma formation is discussed.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick Aurenche

Dilepton and photon production in heavy-ion collisions at SPS energies is 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 2007-05-23 G. Q. Li , G. E. Brown , C. Gale , C. M. Ko

We introduce the seminal developments in the theory and experiments of electromagnetic probes for the study of the dynamics of relativistic heavy ion collisions and quark gluon plasma.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Rupa Chatterjee , Lusaka Bhattacharya , Dinesh K. Srivastava

We study jet production in photon-photon reactions at the next-to-leading logarithm accuracy. Special emphasis is placed on the discussion of the theoretical uncertainties and on the role of the hadronic component of the photon structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 P. Aurenche , J. -Ph. Guillet , M. Fontannaz , Y. Shimizu , J. Fujimoto , K. Kato

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 idea that the radio jets in AGN contain material in relativistic motion is supported by many lines of observational evidence, including morphology, brightness temperature estimated with interferometers and with intrinsic variations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. H. Cohen , M. L. Lister , R. C. Vermeulen

We discuss the latest theoretical results on direct photon and dilepton production from relativistic heavy-ion collisions. While the dilepton spectra at low invariant mass show in-medium effects like a collisional broadening of the vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 E. L. Bratkovskaya

Intensity interferometry of thermal photons, having transverse momenta $k_T \approx $ 0.1 -- 2.0 GeV, produced in relativistic collision of heavy nuclei is studied. It is seen to provide an accurate information about the temporal and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Dinesh Kumar Srivastava

A comprehensive introduction is given to the field of relativistic nuclear collisions, and the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. The content of this complex of reviews is shown.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-07-30 Reinhard Stock

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

We consider the thermodynamics of the matter made up of equal number of neutrons and protons and of scalar dibaryons. They interact via the exchange of scalar and vector mesons. The interaction is taken into account in the mean field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Amand Faessler , M. I. Krivoruchenko , B. V. Martemyanov

Multiple parton interactions in relativistic heavy ion reactions result in transverse momentum diffusion and medium induced non-Abelian energy loss of the hard probes traversing cold and hot nuclear matter. A systematic study of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ivan Vitev

We review the current understanding of time-like virtual photon emission from QCD matter. The phenomenology of dilepton emission is discussed and basic theoretical concepts are introduced. The experimental findings are presented, grouped…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-07-20 Piotr Salabura , Joachim Stroth