3-8 November 2013
Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
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Electromagnetic radiation as a probe of the initial state in relativistic nuclear collisions and of viscous hydrodynamics

5 Nov 2013, 14:30
20m
Table Mountain (Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study)

Table Mountain

Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study

Oral Hard and Thermal Electroweak Probes Hard and Thermal Electroweak Probes

Speaker

Mr Gojko Vujanovic (McGill University)

Description

The penetrating nature of electromagnetic signals makes them suitable probes to explore the properties of the strongly-interacting medium created in relativistic nuclear collisions. This study investigates thermal electromagnetic radiation production using a 3+1D viscous hydrodynamic simulation (MUSIC). We study the thermal dilepton/photon emission of the medium by using both pQCD and hadronic scattering (and decay) processes. We will examine the effects of the initial conditions, viscosity, and event-by-event fluctuations on the flow coefficients of electromagnetic probes.

Primary author

Mr Gojko Vujanovic (McGill University)

Presentation Materials