1. Electromagnetic probes of the QGP
Elena Bratkovskaya
Institut für Theoretische Physik & FIAS, Uni. Frankfurt

2. Electromagnetic probes: photons and dileptons
Feinberg (76), Shuryak (78)
Advantages:
dileptons and real photons are emitted from different stages of the reaction and not effected by final-state interactions
provide undistorted information about their production channels
promising signal of QGP – ‚thermal‘ photons and dileptons
Disadvantages:
low emission rate
production from hadronic corona
many production sources which cannot be individually disentangled by experimental data
 Requires theoretical models which describe the dynamics of heavy-ion collisions during the whole time evolution!
Elena Bratkovskaya (Uni. Frankfurt) JINR (Dubna), 3 September 2014

3. Dynamical models for HIC
Macroscopic Microscopic
Non-equilibrium microscopic transport models – based on many-body theory
hydro-models:
description of QGP and hadronic phase by hydrodynamical equations for the fluid
assumption of local equilibrium
EoS with phase transition from QGP to HG
initial conditions (e-b-e, fluctuating)
Hadron-string models (UrQMD, IQMD, HSD, QGSM, GiBUU, …)
Partonic cascades pQCD based
(Duke, BAMPS, …)
Parton-hadron models:
QGP: pQCD based cascade
massless q, g
hadronization: coalescence
(AMPT, HIJING)
ideal
(Jyväskylä,SHASTA,TAMU, …)
viscous
(Romatschke, (2+1)D VISH2+1, (3+1)D MUSIC,…)
QGP: lQCD EoS
massive quasi-particles
(q and g with spectral functions) in self-generated mean-field
dynamical hadronization
HG: off-shell dynamics
! applicable for strongly interacting systems !
‚Hybrid‘ (Macro+Micro)
QGP phase: hydro with QGP EoS
hadronic freeze-out: after burner - hadron-string transport model
(‚hybrid‘-UrQMD, EPOS, …)
fireball models:
no explicit dynamics: parametrized time evolution (TAMU)
Elena Bratkovskaya (Uni. Frankfurt) JINR (Dubna), 3 September 2014

4. Modeling of photon/dilepton emission
I. Emission rate from thermal field theory:
Feinberg (76), McLerran, Toimela (85), Weldon (90), Gale, Kapusta (91)
Photons:
Dileptons:
Bose distribution:
Lmn is the electromagnetic leptonic tensor
Pmn is the retarded photon self energy at finite T :
Hadron phase: using VDM: ImP ~> ImDr in-medium r-meson spectral function from many-body approach ( cf. Rapp, Chanfrey, Wambach, NPA 617 (1997) 472 )
 study of the in-medium properties of hadrons at high baryon density and T
restoration of chiral symmetry (r-a1): ImDr ~> chiral condensate (by Weinberg sum rules) (cf. Hohler, Rapp, arXiv: )
PRL 110 (2013)
Rates at q00 are related to electric conductivity s0
 Probe of electric properties of the QGP
PHSD plot from Cassing et al., PRL 110 (2013) ; cf. also NJL: Marty et al., PRC87 (2013) 3, ; poster by R.Marty QM‘14
Elena Bratkovskaya (Uni. Frankfurt) JINR (Dubna), 3 September 2014

5. Modeling of photon/dilepton emission
Applicable also for non-equilibrium system !
II. Emission rate from relativistic kinetic theory:
(e.g. for 1+2  g+3)
f(E) - distribution function
M – invariant scattering matrix element from microscopic models
Modeling of hadronic elementary reactions:
Chiral models, OBE models,… (Born-type diagrams)
Problems:
very limited experimental information on mm, mB elementary reactions
Hadrons change their properties in the hot and dense medium:  from vacuum cross sections to in-medium, i.e.
from ‚T-matrix‘ to ‚G-matrix‘ approaches (many-body theory)
E.g. : r-meson collisional broadening – important for dilepton studies!
Elena Bratkovskaya (Uni. Frankfurt) JINR (Dubna), 3 September 2014

6. Production sources of photons in p+p and A+A
Decay photons (in pp and AA): m  g + X, m = p0, h, w, h‘, a1, …
Direct photons: (inclusive(=total) – decay) – measured experimentally
prompt (pQCD; initial hard N+N scattering)
jet fragmentation (pQCD; qq, gq bremsstrahlung) (in AA can be modified by parton energy loss in medium)
hard photons: (large pT, in pp and AA)
thermal photons: (low pT, in AA)
jet-g-conversion in plasma (large pT, in AA)
jet-medium photons (large pT, in AA) - scattering of hard partons with thermalized partons qhard+gQGPg+q , qhard+qbarQGPg+q
QGP
Hadron gas
soft
hard
Elena Bratkovskaya (Uni. Frankfurt) JINR (Dubna), 3 September 2014

7. Production sources of thermal photons
Thermal QGP:
HTL program (Klimov (1981), Weldon (1982), Braaten & Pisarski (1990); Frenkel & Taylor (1990), …)
Compton scattering
q-qbar annihilation
Rates beyond pQCD: off-shell massive q, g (used in PHSD) O. Linnyk, JPG 38 (2011) ;
Poster by O. Linnyk & QM‘2014
+ soft …
pQCD LO: ‘AMY’ Arnold, Moore, Yaffe, JHEP 12, 009 (2001)  QGP rates used in hydro !
pQCD NLO: talk by Jacopo Ghiglieri
Hadronic sources:
(1) secondary mesonic interactions: p+p  r +g, r+p  p+g, p+K  r +g, …
(2) meson-meson and meson-baryon bremsstrahlung: m+m m+m+g, m+B m+B+g , m=p,h,r,w,K,K*,… , B=p,D,…
HG (1)+ ‘Baryons’
HG rates (1) used in hydro (‘TRG’ model) - massive Yang-Mills approach: Turbide, Rapp, Gale, PRC 69, (2004)
Models: chiral models, OBE, SPA … Kapusta, Gale, Haglin (91), Rapp (07), …
Elena Bratkovskaya (Uni. Frankfurt) JINR (Dubna), 3 September 2014

8. 2010: Direct photon spectra for Au+Au at s1/2=200 GeV
PHENIX, Phys. Rev. C81 (2010)
Variety of model predictions:
fireball, 2+1 Bjorken hydro, 3+1 ideal hydro with different initial conditions and EoS
Models: assume formation of a hot QGP with initial temperature Tinit at thermalization time t0
 Huge variations in Tinit and t0!
Warning: some model evolution was not fitted to the final hadron spectra!
Photon spectra show sensitivity to the dynamical evolution!
Elena Bratkovskaya (Uni. Frankfurt) JINR (Dubna), 3 September 2014

9. PHENIX: Photon v2 puzzle
PHENIX (also now ALICE): strong elliptic flow of photons v2(gdir)~ v2(p)
Result from a variety of models: v2(gdir) << v2(p)
Problem: QGP radiation occurs at early times when flow is not yet developed  expected v2(gQGP) 0 v2 = weighted average  a large QGP contribution gives small v2(gQGP)
Linnyk et al., PRC 88 (2013)
NEW (QM’2014): PHENIX, ALICE experiments - large photon v3 !
Challenge for theory – to describe spectra, v2, v3 simultaneously !
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10. 1. Hydro: Influence of e-b-e fluctuating initial conditions
 From smooth Glauber initial conditions to event-by-event hydro with fluctuating initial conditions
Jyväskylä ideal hydro
Ideal QGP and HG fluid
Initial: ‚bumpy‘ ebe MC Glauber
EoS: lQCD
R. Chatterjee et al., PRC 88, (2013)
 Fluctuating initial conditions: slight increase at high pT for yield and v2 small effect, right direction!
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11. 2. From ideal to viscous hydro: direct photons as a QGP viscometer?
The thermal photon emission rates with viscous corrections:
equilibrium contribution
first order viscous correction
(3+1)D MUSIC (McGill): M. Dion et al., PRC84 (2011)
viscous QGP and HG fluid
Initial: ‚bumpy‘ ebe from IP-Glasma
EoS: lQCD
(2+1)D VISH2+1 (Ohio State) : C. Shen et al., arXiv: , arXiv: ; Talk by C. QM2014
viscous QGP and HG fluid
Initial: ‚bumpy‘ ebe from MC Glauber /KLN
EoS: lQCD
Thermal photons: QGP +HG
RHIC energy
 Effect of shear viscosity: * small enhancement of the photon yield * suppression of photon v2 * effect on v2 for photons is stronger than for hadrons
Important!
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12. 3. Influence of Glasma initial conditions with initial flow
(3+1)D MUSIC : J-F. Paquet et al. (2014)
viscous QGP and HG fluid (h/s=0.22)
Initial: ‚bumpy‘ ebe from IP-Glasma  generate initial flow due to fluctuations of IC
EoS: lQCD
QGP photon rate: AMY
HG photon rate: TGR for meson gas with viscous corrections + Rapp spectral function for r-mesons to account for the baryonic contributions
ALICE (preliminary)
Au+Au, 2760 GeV
IP-Glasma: Schenke et al., PRL108 (2012)  
MUSIC with IC-Glasma describes hadronic flow vn systematics at RHIC & LHC, however, missing v2, v3 of photons!
 ‚Bumpy‘ ebe from IP-Glasma - small effect
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13. 4. Hydro with pre-equilibrium flow
‚Initial‘ flow: rapid increase in bulk v2 in fireball model van Hees, Gale, Rapp, PRC84 (2011)
ALICE (preliminary)
Au+Au, 2760 GeV
pre-equilibrium flow in (2+1)D VISH : C. Shen et al., arXiv: , arXiv: ; Talk by C. QM‘2014
viscous QGP and HG fluid (h/s=0.18)
Initial: ‚bumpy‘ ebe from MC Glauber /KLN
EoS: lQCD
QGP photon rate: AMY
HG photon rate: TGR for meson gas with viscous corrections
Generation of pre-equilibrium flow: using free-streaming model to evolve the partons right after the collisions to 0.6 fm/c
+ Landau matching to switch to viscous hydro
 quick development of momentum anisotropy with saturation near TC
It has minor effects on direct photon spectra but increase the photon v2 by a significant amount. Since the pre-equilibrium flow helps the system to develop momentum anisotropy more quickly, the momentum anisotropy will be already saturated near Tc. And because the photon emission is peaked around Tc, the pre-equilibrium flow
helps to increase the photon anisotropy.
 Pre-equilibrium flow:
small effect on photon spectra
slight increase of v2
Warning: results can be considered as upper limit for the pre-equilibrium flow effect!
Elena Bratkovskaya (Uni. Frankfurt) JINR (Dubna), 3 September 2014

14. Are thermal photons a QGP thermometer?
C. Shen et al., PRC89 (2014) ; arXiv:
(2+1)d viscous hydro VISH2+1 (Ohio)
Contour plots of differential photon yield vs. time and temperature T and Teff :
Time evolution of the effective temperature
Teff= -1/slope vs. local fluid cell temperature T
Exp. Data:
RHIC: Teff= MeV
LHC: Teff= MeV
Measured Teff > ‚true‘ T
,blue shift‘ due to the radial flow!
only ~1/3 at LHC and ~1/4 at RHIC of total photons come from hot QCD (T>250 MeV)
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15. What else?! Bulk viscosity Modeling of initial pre-equlibrium effects
Further improvements of hydro models ?
Bulk viscosity
Modeling of initial pre-equlibrium effects …
Non-equilibrium dynamics ?
Missing strength related to hadronic stage?
From hydro to non-equilibrium microscopic transport models :
use PHSD as a ‚laboratory‘ for that
Elena Bratkovskaya (Uni. Frankfurt) JINR (Dubna), 3 September 2014

16. Parton-Hadron-String-Dynamics (PHSD)
PHSD is a non-equilibrium transport model which provides the microscopic description of the full collision evolution
Basic ideas:
explicit phase transition from hadrons to partons
lQCD EoS (cross over) for the partonic phase
explicit parton-parton interactions - between quarks and gluons
dynamical hadronization
off-shell hadronic collision dynamics in the final reaction phase
QGP phase is described by the Dynamical QuasiParticle Model (DQPM)
A. Peshier, W. Cassing, PRL 94 (2005) ;
W. Cassing, NPA 791 (2007) 365: NPA 793 (2007)
strongly interacting quasi-particles - massive quarks and gluons (g, q, qbar) with sizeable collisional widths in self-generated mean-field potential
Spectral functions:
DQPM matches well lattice QCD
Transport theory: generalized off-shell transport equations based on the 1st order gradient expansion of Kadanoff-Baym equations (applicable for strongly interacting system!)
W. Cassing, E. B., PRC 78 (2008) ; NPA831 (2009) 215; W. Cassing, EPJ ST 168 (2009) 3
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17. PHSD: photon spectra at RHIC: QGP vs. HG ?
Linnyk et al., PRC88 (2013) ; PRC 89 (2014)
Direct photon spectrum (min. bias)
PHSD:
QGP gives up to ~50% of direct photon yield below 2 GeV/c
! sizeable contribution of hadronic sources – meson-meson (mm) and meson-Baryon (mB) bremsstrahlung
m+m m+m+g,
m+B m+B+g ,
m=p,h,r,w,K,K*,… B=p
!!! mm and mB bremsstrahlung channels can not be subtracted experimentally !
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18. Photon pT spectra at RHIC for different centralities
PHENIX data - arXiv:
PHSD predictions: O. Linnyk et al, Phys. Rev. C 89 (2014)
from talk by S. Mizuno at QM‘2014
PHSD
PHSD approximately reproduces the centrality dependence
mm and mB bremsstrahlung is dominant at peripheral collisions
!!! Warning: large uncertainties in the Bremsstrahlung channels in the present PHSD results !
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19. Bremsstrahlung – trivial ‚background‘?
Uncertainties in the Bremsstrahlung channels in the present PHSD results :
1) based on the Soft-Photon-Approximation (SPA) (factorization = strong x EM)
C. Gale, J. Kapusta, Phys. Rev. C 35 (1987) 2107
Soft Photon Approximation (SPA):
m1+m2 m1+m2+g
2) no experimental constraint on m+m and m+B differential elastic cross sections
Bremsstrahlung: seen at SPS - WA98
HSD: E. B., Kiselev, Sharkov, PR C78 (2008)
Firebal model: Liu, Rapp, Nucl. Phys. A 96 (2007) 101
using SPA
 mm and mB Bremsstrahlung seams to be an important source of soft photons!
More work has to be done to have it under control!
effective chiral model for ppppg, pKpKg bremsstrahlung gives larger contribution than SPA
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20. Centrality dependence of the ‚thermal‘ photon yield
O. Linnyk et al, Phys. Rev. C 89 (2014)
PHENIX (arXiv: ): scaling of thermal photon yield vs centrality: dN/dy ~ Nparta with a~
PHSD predictions:
Hadronic channels scale as ~ Npart1.5
Partonic channels scale as ~Npart1.75
(‘Thermal’ photon yield = direct photons - pQCD)
PHSD: scaling of the thermal photon yield with Nparta with a~1.5
similar results from viscous hydro: (2+1)d VISH2+1: a(HG) ~1.46, a(QGP) ~2, a(total) ~1.7
 What do we learn? Indications for a dominant hadronic origin of thermal photon production?!
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21. Are the direct photons a barometer of the QGP?
Do we see the QGP pressure in v2(g) if the photon production is dominated by hadronic sources?
Linnyk et al., PRC88 (2013) ; PRC 89 (2014)
HSD(no QGP)
1) v2(gincl) = v2(p0 ) - inclusive photons mainly come from p0 decays
model without QGP (HSD) underestimates v2 of hadrons and inclusive photons by a factor of wheras the model with QGP (PHSD) is consistent with exp. data
2) v2(gdir) of direct photons in PHSD underestimates the PHENIX data :
v2(gQGP) is very small, but QGP contribution is up to 50% of total yield  lowering flow
The QGP causes the strong elliptic flow of photons indirectly, by enhancing the v2 of final hadrons due to the partonic interactions
PHSD: v2(gdir) comes from mm and mB bremsstrahlung ?!
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22. Photons from PHSD at LHC
PHSD- preliminary: Olena Linnyk
PHSD: v2 of inclusive photons
Preliminary
PHSD: direct photons
Is the considerable elliptic flow of direct photons at the LHC also of hadronic origin as for RHIC?!
The photon elliptic flow at LHC is lower than at RHIC due to a larger relative QGP contribution / longer QGP phase.
PHSD v2 goes down at high pt since there the QGP channel become dominant, particular pQCD
Direct v2(pt) no hadronic decays included: direct photons =thermal + pQCD+bremss.
Preliminary
 LHC (similar to RHIC): hadronic photons dominate spectra and v2
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23. Towards the solution of the v2 puzzle
Is hadronic bremsstrahlung a ‚solution‘?
Other scenarios:
Early-time magnetic field effects ? (Basar, Kharzeev, Skokov, PRL109 (2012) ; Basar, Kharzeev, Shuryak, arXiv: )
„ … a novel photon production mechanism stemming from the conformal anomaly of QCD-QED and the existence of strong (electro)magnetic fields in heavy ion collisions.“ Exp. checks: v3 , centrality dependence of photon yield (PHENIX: arXiv: )
Glasma effects ? (L. McLerran, B. Schenke, arXiv: )
„ … Photon distributions from the Glasma are steeper than those computed in the Thermalized Quark Gluon Plasma (TQGP). Both the delayed equilibration of the Glasma and a possible anisotropy in the pressure lead to a slower expansion and mean times of photon emission of fixed energy are increased.“
Pseudo-Critical Enhancement of thermal photons near TC ? (H. van Hees, M. He, R. Rapp, arXiv: ) cf. talk by R. Rapp - „Electromagnetic probes: 2-2“ (Monday) ?
non-perturbative effects?
semi-QGP - cf. talk by S. Lin - „Electromagnetic probes: 2-2“ (Monday)
???
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24. … shining in the darkness
Some messages from the ‘photon adventure’:
Can thermal QGP accelerate photons enough?!
The role of hadronic sources (like bremsstrahlung) were underestimated?
The importance of initial phases of the reaction:
Large photon v2 requires the development of pre-equilibrium / initial flow ?!
New sources of photon emission? Why not seen in dileptons?!
The photons provide a critical test for the theoretical models:
models constructed to reproduce the ‚hadronic world‘ fail to explain the photon experimental data!
 Additional impuls for the development of dynamical models:
e.g. from ideal to ebe viscous hydro, EoS, realistic non-equilibrium dynamics …
Photons – one of the most sensitive probes for the dynamics of HIC!
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25. Dileptons: from SPS to LHC
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26. Dilepton sources from the QGP via partonic (q,qbar, g) interactions:
from hadronic sources:
direct decay of vector
mesons (r,w,f,J/Y,Y‘)
Dalitz decay of mesons
and baryons (p0,h, D,…)
correlated D+Dbar pairs
radiation from multi-meson reactions (p+p, p+r, p+w, r+r , p+a1) - ‚4p‘
Plot from A. Drees
+qq
‚thermal QGP‘
! Advantage of dileptons: additional „degree of freedom“ (M) allows to disentangle various sources
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27. Lessons from SPS: NA60
Dilepton invariant mass spectra:
PHSD: Linnyk et al, PRC 84 (2011)
Hybrid-UrQMD: Santini et al., PRC84 (2011)
NA60: Eur. Phys. J. C 59 (2009) 607
QGP
Fireball model – Renk/Ruppert Fireball model – Rapp/vanHees Ideal hydro model – Dusling/Zahed
Inverse slope parameter Teff: spectrum from QGP is softer than from hadronic phase since the QGP emission occurs dominantly before the collective radial flow has developed
Message from SPS: (based on NA60 and CERES data)
1) Low mass spectra - evidence for the in-medium broadening of r-mesons 2) Intermediate mass spectra above 1 GeV - dominated by partonic radiation 3) The rise and fall of Teff – evidence for the thermal QGP radiation 4) Isotropic angular distribution – indication for a thermal origin of dimuons
PRL 102 (2009)
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28. Dileptons at RHIC: PHENIX
cocktail
HSD
Ideal hydro Dusling/Zahed
Fireball model Rapp/vanHees
PHENIX: PRC81 (2010)
cocktail
HSD
Ideal hydro Dusling/Zahed
Fireball model Rapp/vanHees
Linnyk et al., PRC 85 (2012)
Message:
Models provide a good description of pp data and peripheral Au+Au data, however, fail in describing the excess for central collisions even with in-medium scenarios for the vector meson spectral function
The ‘missing source’(?) is located at low pT
Intermediate mass spectra – dominant QGP contribution
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29. Dileptons at RHIC: STAR data vs model predictions
(Talk by P. Huck at QM‘2014)
Centrality dependence of dilepton yield
Excess in low mass region, min. bias
Models:
Fireball model – R. Rapp
PHSD
Low masses:
collisional broadening of r
Intermediate masses: QGP dominant
Message: STAR data are described by models within a collisional broadening scenario for the vector meson spectral function + QGP
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30. Dileptons from RHIC BES: STAR
(Talk by Nu Xi at 23d CBM Meeting‘14)
(Talk by Nu Xu at QM‘2014)
Message:
BES-STAR data show a constant low mass excess (scaled with N(p0)) within the measured energy range
PHSD model: excess increasing with decreasing energy due to a longer r-propagation in the high baryon density phase
 Good perspectives for future experiments – CBM(FAIR) / MPD(NICA)
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31. Dileptons at LHC QGP Message:
O. Linnyk, W. Cassing, J. Manninen, E.B., P.B. Gossiaux, J. Aichelin, T. Song, C.-M. Ko, Phys.Rev. C87 (2013) ; arXiv:
QGP
Message:
low masses - hadronic sources: in-medium effects for r mesons are small
intermediate masses: QGP + D/Dbar
charm ‘background’ is smaller than thermal QGP yield
QGP(qbar-q) dominates at M>1.2 GeV  clean signal of QGP at LHC!
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32. Perspectives with dileptons: vn
Vujanovic, Young, Schenke, Rapp, Jeon, Gale, PRC 89 (2014)
Talk by Vujanovic, QM‘2014
M=mr
(3+1)d MUSIC: Au+Au, RHIC, 10% central
M=1.5 GeV
v2 (similar for v3 ):
sensitive to the EoS and h/s
sensitive to the sources
Dileptons: advantages compared to photons – extra degree of freedom M allows to disentangle the sources!
Elena Bratkovskaya (Uni. Frankfurt) JINR (Dubna), 3 September 2014

33. Messages from dilepton data
Low dilepton masses:
Dilepton spectra show sizeable changes due to the in-medium effects – modification of the properties of vector mesons (as collisional broadening) - which are observed experimentally
In-medium effects can be observed at all energies from SIS to LHC
Intermediate dilepton masses:
The QGP (qbar-q) dominates for M>1.2 GeV
Fraction of QGP grows with increasing energy; at the LHC it is dominant
+qq
Outlook: * experimental energy scan * experimental measurements of dilepton’s higher flow harmonics vn
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34. Thank you!
Elena Bratkovskaya (Uni. Frankfurt) JINR (Dubna), 3 September 2014

35. PHSD for HIC (highlights)
PHSD provides a consistent description of HIC
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36. Dileptons from RHIC BES: STAR
(Talk by P. Huck at QM‘2014)
(Talk by Nu Xu at QM‘2014)
Message:
BES-STAR data show a constant low mass excess within the measured energy range
PHSD model: excess increasing with decreasing energy due to a longer r-propagation in the high baryon density phase
 Good perspectives for future experiments – CBM(FAIR) / MPD(NICA)
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37. PHSD: Photon pT spectra at RHIC for different centralities
PHENIX data - arXiv:
O. Linnyk et al, Phys. Rev. C 89 (2014)
from talk by S. Mizuno at QM‘2014
PHSD
PHSD reproduces the centrality dependence
mm and mB bremsstrahlung is dominant at peripheral collisions
!!! Warning: large uncertainties in the Bremsstrahlung channels in the present PHSD results !
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