2005/05/09 by Kirill Filimonov
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #nucl-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1556/aph.25.2006.2-4.26
published as ActaPhys.Hung.A25:363-370,2006 · To appear in the proceedings of 21st Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Breckenridge, Colorado, 5-12 Feb 2005
arxiv created 2005/05/09 · openalex publication_date 2006/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Prompt photon production in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions provides a calibrated probe for the study of the properties of high energy density QCD matter. Especially interesting are the measurements of γ-tagged jets where the hard scattering scale is known and can be used to determine the partonic energy loss in the dense matter. We discuss the potential of γ-jet measurements at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and argue that the observed supression of the away-side correlations for di-jet production in central Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV should significantly reduce the backgrounds for the γ-jet coincidence measurements.