High $p_T$ correlations of $\gamma$ and charged hadrons at RHIC

Abstract

Prompt photon production in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions provides a calibrated probe for the study of the properties of high energy density QCD matter. Especially interesting are the measurements of $\gamma$-tagged jets where the hard scattering scale is known and can be used to determine the partonic energy loss in the dense matter. We discuss the potential of $\gamma$-jet measurements at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and argue that the observed supression of the away-side correlations for di-jet production in central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV should significantly reduce the backgrounds for the $\gamma$-jet coincidence measurements.

To appear in the proceedings of 21st Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Breckenridge, Colorado, 5-12 Feb 2005

References in corpus (4)

• Hadronic Production of Thermal Photons
• High energy photons from passage of jets through quark gluon plasma
• Medium induced jet absorption at relativistic heavy ion collisions
• Direct-Photon Production from SPS to RHIC Energies

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• Jet energy loss, photon production, and photon-hadron correlations at RHIC
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