Electromagnetic & Weak Probes: Experimental Overview

Abstract

Electromagnetic and electroweak probes are the most versatile probes in the study of heavy-ion collisions. Produced at every stage in the evolution of QCD matter, its messengers are practically inert to the strongly interacting medium they travel through. In this contribution, I will discuss a selection of new results from experiments at the LHC, RHIC, and SIS facilities, spanning almost four orders of magnitude in beam energy. I will conclude with a brief overview of the experimental landscape in the near future.

Contribution to the QM2019 proceedings

References in corpus (7)

• Direct real photons in relativistic heavy ion collisions
• Elliptic flow of thermal dileptons in relativistic nuclear collisions
• Observation of nuclear modifications in W${}^{\pm }$ boson production in pPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=$ 8.16 TeV
• Measurement of $W^{\pm }$ boson production in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Z production in pPb collisions and charmonium production in PbPb ultra-peripheral collisions at LHCb
• Low-mass dielectron measurements in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
• Upgrading the Inner Tracking System and the Time Projection Chamber of ALICE

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• Multi-scale evolution of charmed particles in a nuclear medium