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Thermal photons as a measure for the rapidity dependence of the temperature

A. Dumitru, U. Katscher, J. A. Maruhn, H. Stöcker, W. Greiner, D. H. Rischke

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9503347

Abstract

The rapidity distribution of thermal photons produced in Pb+Pb collisions at CERN-SPS energies is calculated within scaling and three-fluid hydrodynamics. It is shown that these scenarios lead to very different rapidity spectra. A measurement of the rapidity dependence of photon radiation can give cleaner insight into the reaction dynamics than pion spectra, especially into the rapidity dependence of the temperature.

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