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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 have attempted to describe the rapidity and transverse momentum spectra, simultaneously, of the hadrons produced in the Ultra-relativistic Nuclear Collisions. This we have tried to achieve in a single statistical thermal freeze-out model…

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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

The thermal photon emissivity at the QCD chiral crossover is investigated using imaginary momentum correlators. These have been measured on a newly generated $20 \times 96^3$ lattice-QCD ensemble with $\mathcal{O}(a)$-improved Wilson quarks…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-01-12 Ardit Krasniqi , Marco Cè , Tim Harris , Renwick J. Hudspith , Harvey B. Meyer , Csaba Török

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

We analyzed the transverse momentum spectra of positively and negatively charged pions ($\pi^+$ and $\pi^-$), positively and negatively charged kaons ($K^+$ and $K^-$), protons and antiprotons ($p$ and $\bar p$), as well as $\phi$ produced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-07 Li-Li Li , Fu-Hu Liu , Muhammad Waqas , Muhammad Ajaz

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

It is shown that the ratio of transverse momentum (p_T) distribution of thermal photons to dileptons produced in heavy ion collisions reaches a plateau above p_T=1 GeV. We argue that the value of the ratio in the plateau region can be used…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-25 Jajati K. Nayak , Jan-e Alam , Sourav Sarkar , Bikash Sinha

The transverse momentum spectra of the produced hadrons have been compared to a model which is based on the assumption that a nucleus-nucleus collision is a superposition of isotropically decaying thermal sources at a given freeze out…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Bedangadas Mohanty

We present results for the photon emission rate determined from the transverse channel vector correlator at fixed spatial momentum using two flavors of dynamical Wilson fermions at $T\sim$250 MeV. We estimate the transverse channel spectral…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-02 Csaba Török , Marco Cè , Tim Harris , Ardit Krasniqi , Harvey B. Meyer , Arianna Toniato

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

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

The transverse momentum spectra for direct photons produced in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC, including thermal (hydrodynamics) and prompt (pQCD) emissions are presented.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-07-17 Francois Arleo , David d'Enterria , Dmitri Peressounko

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

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

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

Photons are a penetrating probe of the hot medium formed in heavy-ion collisions, but they are emitted from all collision stages. At photon energies below 2-3 GeV, the measured photon spectra are approximately exponential and can be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-02 Chun Shen , Ulrich W. Heinz , Jean-Francois Paquet , Charles Gale

Different orientations of $\alpha$-clustered carbon nuclei colliding with heavy ions can result in a large variation in the value of anisotropic flow. Thus, photon flow observables from clustered ${\rm^{12}C}$ and ${\rm^{197}Au}$ collisions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-04 Pingal Dasgupta , Guo-Liang Ma , Rupa Chatterjee , Li Yan , Song Zhang , Yu-Gang Ma

In high-energy heavy-ion collisions, a nearly perfect fluid is formed, known as the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP). After a short thermalization period, the evolution of this medium can be described by the equations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Gábor László Kasza

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