1994/11/18 by N. Arbex, Nelmara Arbex, U. Ornik +4 · 40 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Collision #Heavy ion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ion #Mixed phase #Nuclear physics #Optics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phase (matter) #Phase transition #Photon #Physics #Plasma #Production (economics) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Quark–gluon plasma #Synchrotron #Thermal #Thermodynamics #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(94)01620-r
published in Physics Letters B 345(3), 307-312 (Elsevier BV) · 9 pages, figures are uudecoded compressed and tared
arxiv created 1994/11/18 · openalex publication_date 1995/02/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Using a three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulation of the collision and an equation of state containing a first order phase transition to the quark-gluon plasma, we study thermal photon production for Au+Au collisions at Elab=11.5 AGeV and for Pb+Pb collisions at 160 AGeV. We obtain surprisingly high rates of thermal photons even at the lower energy, suggesting that, contrary to what was expected so far, photon production may be an interesting topic for experimental search also at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. When applied to the reaction S+Au at 200 AGeV, our model can reproduce preliminary data obtained by the WA80 Collaboration without having to postulate the existence of an extremely long-lived mixed phase as was recently proposed.