Alexander Milov
(Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics Weizmann Institute of Science)
31/05/2012, 09:00
Oral presentation
The color neutral bosons are an unparalleled probes of the hot and dense matter produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions at LHC. Because the decay products do not carry color charges, the W and Z bosons allows us insight into the initial hard scattering that produced it and provides a clean test of our understanding of the collision. In particular, the yield of bosons in heavy ion...
Begona De La Cruz
(CIEMAT, Spain)
31/05/2012, 09:30
Oral presentation
Electroweak gauge bosons, $\gamma$, W and Z, do not participate in the strong interaction, and thus constitute clean probes of the initial state of nucleus-nucleus collisions. The comparison of their production cross-sections in pp and in nuclear collisions provides an estimate of the nuclear parton distribution functions. Despite the low production cross section of weak bosons compared to...
Charles Gale
(McGill University)
31/05/2012, 10:00
Oral presentation
I review the theory behind the emission of electromagnetic radiation in relativistic collisions. The rates for photon and lepton pair production are examined, both for a quark-gluon plasma and for a hadronic gas at finite temperatures and densities. A special emphasis is placed on the connection between electromagnetic spectra and the details of modern 3D hydrodynamic simulations of...
