Thermal photons to dileptons ratio at LHC

2007/05/24 by Jajati K. Nayak, Nayak, Jajati K., Jan-e Alam +5
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0705.3505

2 pages with 2 eps figures

arxiv created 2007/05/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

It is shown that the ratio of transverse momentum (p_T) distribution of thermal photons to dileptons produced in heavy ion collisions reaches a plateau above p_T=1 GeV. We argue that the value of the ratio in the plateau region can be used to estimate the initial temperature.

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