Photon measurements in forward rapidity in heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

Contribution of a preshower photon multiplicity detector to the physics of ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions is reviewed and future possibilities at RHIC and LHC are discussed

12 pages and 11 figures, Invited talk given at 5th International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark Gluon Plasma (ICPAQGP 2005), Salt Lake City, Kolkata, India, 8-12 Feb 2005

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