Seminar----Institute of Theoretical Physics，Chinese Academy of Sciences

Institute of Theoretical Physics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics
Seminar
Title 题目	Photons from the Early Stages of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Speaker 报告人	Dr. Marco Ruggieri
Affiliation 所在单位	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Date 日期	2017年3月8日（周三）下午1５：00
Venue 地点	Conference Hall 322, ITP
Abstract 摘要	We present results about photons production in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The main novelty of our study is the calculation of the contribution of the early stage photons to the photon spectrum. The initial stage is modeled by an ensemble of classical gluon fields which decay to a quark-gluon plasma via the Schwinger mechanism, and the evolution of the system is studied by coupling classical field equations to relativistic kinetic theory; photons production is then computed by including the pertinent collision processes into the collision integral. We find that the contribution of early stage photons to the direct photon spectrum is substantial in the transverse momentum region $p_T\gtrsim 1.5$ GeV: therefore we identify this part of the photon spectrum as the sign of the early stage. Moreover, the amount of photons produced during the early stage is not negligible with respect to those produced by a thermalized quark-gluon plasma: we support the idea that there is no dark age in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
Contact Person 联系人	郭奉坤