Abstract: (Elsevier)
Thermal and prompt photon production in heavy ion collisions is evaluated and compared with measurements from both RHIC and the LHC. An event-by-event hydrodynamical model of heavy ion collisions that includes shear and bulk viscosities is used, along with up-to-date photon emission rates. Larger tension with measurements is observed at RHIC than at the LHC. The center-of-mass energy and centrality dependence of thermal and prompt photons is investigated.
  • ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisons
  • quark-gluon plasma
  • electromagnetic probes
  • talk: Kobe 2015/09/27
  • photon: direct production
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • photon: flux
  • model: hydrodynamics
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • Brookhaven RHIC Coll