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Thermal photon to dilepton ratio in high energy nuclear collisions

2007/05/31 by Jajati K. Nayak, Jan‐e Alam, Jane Alam +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.78.034903

published as Phys.Rev.C78:034903,2008 · 9 pages with 11 eps figures

openalex publication_date 2008/09/04 · arxiv created 2009/02/03 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The ratio of transverse momentum distribution of thermal photons to dilepton has been evaluated. It is observed that this ratio reaches a plateau beyond a certain value of transverse momentum. We argue that this ratio can be used to estimate the initial temperature of the system by selecting the transverse momentum and invariance mass windows judiciously. It is demonstrated that if the radial flow is large then the plateau disappears and hence a deviation from the plateau can be used as an indicator of large radial flow. The sensitivity of the results to various input parameters has been studied.

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