Relativistic Heavy Ions Experiment IV Photons and Neutral Mesons
Time Evolution of a Heavy Ion Collision
Photon Sources in A+A Collisions
Hard direct Photons E.M. Bremsstrahlung Prompt Photon Sources in p+p Reactions
Prompt Photons Photons from Jet-Fragmentation Fraction of Prompt Photons in p+p Reactions
Photon Spectrum in p+p
Photons in p+p and p+A
Thermal photons from the hot medium Jet-photon conversion in the medium Additional Photon Sources in A+A
Turbide, Rapp, Gale, Phys. Rev. C 69 (014903), 2004 Theoretical Expectation in A+A
Rear View of Leadglass Block (Super Module)
Lead Glass Calorimeter in WA98
Electromagnetic Calorimeter in PHENIX
PHENIX Experiment
Photons from Radiative Decays in Pb+Pb at 158AGeV
Background Photons from Radiative Decays
Systematic Errors of Direct Photon Measurement in Pb+Pb
Ratio of Measured to Background Photons
Direct Photon Spectrum in Pb+Pb at 158AGeV
k t -broadening + T i = 205MeV no k t -broadening + T i = 270MeV Turbide, Rapp, Gale, Phys. Rev. C 69 (014902), 2004 Prompt and Thermal Photons in Pb+Pb at 158AGeV
T i = MeV QGP + HG + pQCD (Non-boost inv. hydro) Huovinen, Ruuskanen, Räsänen (Nucl. Phys. A 650 (227) 1999) T i = MeV Pure HG + pQCD (Non-boost inv. hydro) T i = 335 MeV, = 0,2 fm/c QGP + HG + pQCC (Bjorken hydro) Svrivastava (nucl-th/ ) 250 < T i < 370 MeV, 0,5 < < 3 fm/c QGP + HG + pQCDRenk (Phys.Rev.C67:064901,2003) T i = MeV, = 0,5 fm/c QGP + HG + pQCD without k T T i = 205 MeV, = 1 fm/c QGP + HG + pQCD with k T Turbide, Rapp, Gale (Phys.Rev.C69:014903,2004 ) Theoretical Descriptions and Initial Temperatures T i
p+p measurement scaled with N coll Prompt Photons in Au+Au, s = 200GeV
Direct Photon Measurement via Virtual Photons phase space factor form factor invariant mass of Dalitz pair invariant mass of virtual photon Compton q g q e+e+ e-e- 00 e+e+ e-e-
S/B=~1 Direct Photon Measurement via Virtual Photons
S/B=~1 calculated from Dalitz formula measured R data ÷ RR RR R direct measured with EMCal Direct Photon Measurement via Virtual Photons