Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2009-02-06
Phys.Rev.C79:034906,2009
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
10 pages, 13 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.79.034906
We present a reanalysis of single photon production from relativistic collision of lead nuclei at CERN SPS measured by the WA98 experiment. The refinements include use of iso-spin and shadowing corrected NLO pQCD treatment for prompt photon production using an optimized scale for factorization, renormalization, and fragmentation and use of hydrodynamics suited for non-central collisions along with a well tested equation of state admitting a quark-hadron phase transition. A quantitative explanation of the data requires a large initial temperature (at a small formation time of about 0.2 fm/$c$) and a moderate increase in the prompt yield which could perhaps be attributed to the Cronin effect in nuclei. The data can also be explained using a moderate initial temperature (at a formation time of about 1 fm/$c$) with a very large $K$-factor multiplying the prompt yield. We show that different initial times give rise to different values for the elliptic flow parameter $v_2$ for thermal photons. We also show that a measurement of $v_2$ for thermal photons could also distinguish between the scenarios with or without a phase transition.
Chatterjee Rupa
Jeon Sangyong
Srivastava Dinesh K.
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