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Thermal photons and collective flow at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

We update our calculations of thermal-photon production in nuclear collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). Specifically, we address the recent experimental observation of an elliptic flow of direct photons comparable in magnitude to that of pions, which is at variance with expectations based on quark-gluon plasma (QGP) dominated photon radiation. Our thermal emission rate ...

Fluid dynamical prediction of changed v1 flow at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

L. P. Csernai,1,2,3 V. K. Magas,4 H. Stöcker,3 and D. D. Strottman1,3 1Institute of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Allegaten 55, N-5007 Bergen, Norway 2MTA-KFKI, Research Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary 3Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Departament d’Estructura i Constituents de la...

Physics at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Measurements of phi meson production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

Citation STAR Collaboration et al. " Measurements of phi meson production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how...

Heavy-ion physics with the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

After close to 20 years of preparation, the dedicated heavy-ion experiment A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) took first data at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator with proton collisions at the end of 2009 and with lead nuclei at the end of 2010. After a short introduction into the physics of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, this article recalls the main design choice...