Measurements of thermal photons in heavy ion collisions with PHENIX
arXiv:0804.4309 · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/35/10/104118
Abstract
Thermal photons are thought to be the ideal probe to measure the temperature of the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy ion collisions. PHENIX has measured direct photons with p_T < 5 GeV/c via their internal conversions into e+e- pairs in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV and has now provided a baseline measurement from p+p data.
7 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Proc. 20th Int. Conf. on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus--Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2008), Jaipur, India, February 4-10, 2008
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