Concepedia

Hard probes in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC: Photon physics in heavy ion collisions at the LHC

François Arleo, J. Ranft, S. S. Räsänen, G. David, K. Eskola, François Gelis, J.Ph. Guillet, Fritz Bopp, D. d’Enterria, Guy D. Moore,

High-Energy Physics Literature Database (CERN, DESY, Fermilab, IHEP, and SLAC) · 2004 · 25 citations · 0 references

Concepts

Natural SciencesPhysicsNuclear PhysicsParticle PhysicsAccelerator PhysicsCollider PhysicsHadron PhysicsHadron SpectroscopyHeavy-ion PhysicsStrong InteractionDirect Photon ProductionHadron Collider PhysicsHadron Spectroscopy In Heavy-ion CollisionsInitial State FluctuationsParticle FluctuationsPhoton PhysicsRelativistic Heavy-ion CollisionsUltra-relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Abstract

Various pion and photon production mechanisms in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC are discussed. Comparison with RHIC data is done whenever possible. The prospect of using electromagnetic probes to characterize quark-gluon plasma formation is assessed.