Electromagnetic Probes of Strongly Interacting Matter
arXiv:nucl-th/0610052 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.11.013
Abstract
Photons and dileptons are being used to probe the properties of nuclear and quark-gluon matter at high energy densities. This is an area where theory and experiment are driving each other to obtain solid results. However, it is important to clearly separate the assumptions and conclusions concerning the correlation and response functions of a system in thermal equilibrium from the space-time dynamics used to model the evolution of the matter created in the nuclear collision.
9 pages, 10 figures, Proceedings of Hard Probes 2006
References in corpus (5)
- First Measurement of the rho Spectral Function in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions
- Centrality Dependence of Direct Photon Production in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions
- Energy Loss of Leading Hadrons and Direct Photon production in Evolving Quark-Gluon Plasma
- e+e--pair production in Pb-Au collisions at 158 GeV per nucleon
- Azimuthal Asymmetry of Direct Photons in High Energy Nuclear Collisions