Direct photons from relativistic heavy ion collisions at CERN SPS and at RHIC

Details Direct photons from relativistic heavy ion collisions at CERN SPS and at RHIC Direct photons from relativistic heavy ion collisions at CERN SPS and at RHIC

2002-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0203067v1

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Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

5 pages, 5 figures

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Assuming QGP as the initial state, we have analyzed the direct photon data, obtained by the WA98 collaboration, in 158 A GeV Pb+Pb collisions at CERN SPS. It was shown, that for small thermalisation time, two loop rate contribute substantially to high $p_T$ photons. We argue that for extremely short thermalisation time scale, the higher loop contribution should not be neglected. For thermalisation time 0.4 fm or greater, when higher loop contribution are not substantial, the initial temperature of the QGP is not large and the system does not produce enough hard $p_T$ photons to fit the WA98 experiment. For initial time in the ranges of 0.4-1.0 fm, WA98 data could be fitted only if the fluid has initial radial velocity in the range of 0.3-0.5c. The model was applied to predict photon spectrum at RHIC energy.

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