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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 fluidity of the hot and dense QCD matter is a key characteristic of the medium created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We extend the framework of the relativistic hydrodynamic model to incorporate non-thermal momentum distributions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 Akihiko Monnai

The recent status of hard thermal photon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions is reviewed and the current rates are presented with emphasis on corrected bremsstrahlung processes in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and quark-hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Frank D. Steffen , Markus H. Thoma

It is widely believed that the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) might be formed in the current heavy ion collisions. It is also widely recognized that the relativistic hydrodynamics is one of the best tools for describing the process of expansion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-06 Zhi-Jin Jiang , Jia-Qi Hui , Yu Zhang

We calculate the rate of the emission of the photons from the QGP. We base on the real-time kinetic approach [1] without an explicit assumption about a complete thermal equilibrium in the emitting system. ( Figures can be obtained from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Makhlin

A new channel of direct photon production from a quark gluon plasma (QGP) is explored. This process appears at Next-to-Leading-Order in the presence of a charge asymmetry in the heated matter and may be effectively described as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Guang-You Qin , Abhijit Majumder , 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

In high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions, a transient state of thermalized, hot and dense matter governed by Quantum Chromodynamics is produced. Properties of this state are reflected in the bulk low transverse momentum (P_T) hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Thorsten Renk

A brief survey is given on the current status of evaluating thermal production of photons from a strongly interacting medium. Emphasis is put on recent progress in assessing equilibrium emission rates in both hadronic and quark-gluon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ralf Rapp

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

Thermal electromagnetic radiation is emitted by the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) throughout its space-time evolution, with production rates that depend characteristically on the temperature. We study this temperature using thermal photons and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-16 Olaf Massen , Govert Nijs , Mike Sas , Wilke van der Schee , Raimond Snellings

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

The collective behaviour of hadronic particles has been observed in high multiplicity proton-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), as well as in deuteron-gold collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-24 C. Shen , J. -F. Paquet , G. S. Denicol , S. Jeon , C. Gale

We use a boost-invariant one-dimensional (cylindrically symmetric) fluid dynamics code to calculate thermal photon production in the central rapidity region of S+Au and Pb+Pb collisions at SPS energy ($\sqrt{s}=20$ GeV/nucleon). We assume…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 John J. Neumann , David Seibert , George Fai

In the framework of closed time path thermal field theory we investigate the production rate of hard thermal photons from a QCD plasma away from equilibrium. Dynamical screening provides a finite rate for chemically non-equilibrated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Baier , M. Dirks , K. Redlich , D. Schiff

The electromagnetic emissivity from QCD media away from equilibrium is studied in the framework of closed time path thermal field theory. For the dilepton rate a nonequilibrium mesonic medium is considered applying finite temperature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 R. Baier , M. Dirks , K. Redlich

Ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at the laboratory provide a unique chance to study quantum chromodynamics (QCD) under extreme temperature (${\approx}150\,\mathrm{MeV}$) and density (${\approx}1\,\mathrm{GeV}/\mathrm{fm}^3$)…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-10-30 Georgios Konstantinos Krintiras

The thermal-photon emission from strongly coupled gauge theories at finite temperature is calculated by using holographic models for QCD in the Veneziano limit (V-QCD). These emission rates are then embedded in hydrodynamic simulations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Ioannis Iatrakis , Elias Kiritsis , Chun Shen , Di-Lun Yang

We compute the soft real photon emission rate from the QCD matter in the vicinity of the critical line at moderate density and the temperature approaching the critical one from above. The obtained production rate exhibits a steep rise close…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 B. O. Kerbikov

The ratio of transverse momentum distribution of thermal photons to dilepton has been evaluated. It is observed that this ratio reaches a plateau beyond a certain value of transverse momentum. We argue that this ratio can be used to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-03 Jajati K. Nayak , Jane Alam , Sourav Sarkar , Bikash Sinha