Thermal Photons in Strong Interactions

Abstract

A brief survey is given on the current status of evaluating thermal production of photons from a strongly interacting medium. Emphasis is put on recent progress in assessing equilibrium emission rates in both hadronic and quark-gluon matter. We also give an update on the status of comparing theoretical calculations with experimental data from heavy-ion collisions at the SPS, as well as prospects for RHIC. Finally, applications of photon rate calculations to colorsuperconducting quark matter are discussed.

arXiv commentBrief Review for Mod. Phys. Lett A, 15 pages latex incl. 12 ps/eps figs and style file ws-mpla.cls

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