Photon physics in heavy ion collisions at the LHC
/ Authors
F. Arleo, P. Aurenche, F. Bopp, I. Dadic, G. David, H. Delagrange, D. d’Enterria, K. Eskola, F. Gelis, J. Guillet
and 25 more authors
S. Jeon, Y. Kharlov, O. Kodolova, P. Lévai, J. H. Liu, I. Lokhtin, G. Moore, H. Niemi, A. Nikitenko, T. Peitzmann, P. Petreczky, J. Ranft, R. Rapp, P. Ruuskanen, K. Redlich, S. Rasanen, I. Sarcevic, J. Serreau, D. K. Srivastava, H. Takai, S. Tapprogge, M. Tokarev, I. Vardanyan, M. Werlen, P. Yepes
/ Abstract
Various pion and photon production mechanisms in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC are discussed. Comparison with RHIC data is done whenever possible. The prospect of using electromagnetic probes to characterize quark-gluon plasma formation is assessed...
Journal: arXiv: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology