Direct photons at low transverse momentum: a signal for quark-gluon plasma in pp collisions at LHC

We investigate photon production in a scenario of quark-gluon plasma formation in proton-proton scattering at 7 TeV. It is shown that thermal photon yields increase quadratically with the charged particle multiplicity. This gives an enhanced weight to high multiplicity events, and leads to an import...

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Published inPhysical review letters Vol. 106; no. 24; p. 242301
Main Authors Liu, Fu-Ming, Werner, Klaus
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 17.06.2011
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Summary:We investigate photon production in a scenario of quark-gluon plasma formation in proton-proton scattering at 7 TeV. It is shown that thermal photon yields increase quadratically with the charged particle multiplicity. This gives an enhanced weight to high multiplicity events, and leads to an important photon production even in minimum-bias events, where the thermal photons largely dominate over the prompt ones at transverse momentum values smaller than 10  GeV/c.
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.242301