Published April 2, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Photons from nucleus-nucleus collisions at ultra-relativistic energies

  • 1. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700 064 (India)
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113 0033 (Japan)
  • 3. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700 064 (India)
  • 4. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700 064 (India)

Description

We compare the photon emission rates from hot hadronic matter with in-medium mass shift and Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). It is observed that the WA98 data can be well reproduced by hadronic initial state with initial temperature ∼200 MeV if the universal scaling of temperature dependent hadronic masses are assumed and the evolution of temperature with time is taken from transport model or (3+1) dimensional hydrodynamics. The data can also be reproduced by QGP initial state with similar initial temperature and non-zero initial radial velocity

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
610
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 522-526
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
International nuclear physics conference on nuclear physics in the 21st century
Acronym
INPC 2001
Dates
30 Jul - 3 Aug 2001
Place
Berkeley, CA (United States)

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(c) 2002 American Institute of Physics.