https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2005-02248-3
Experimental Physics
Direct-photon production in heavy-ion collisions from SPS to RHIC energies
Institut für Kernphysik, University of Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 9, 48149, Münster, Germany
* e-mail: reygers@ikp.uni-muenster.de
Received:
15
February
2005
Revised:
23
March
2005
Published online:
18
May
2005
Direct photons are an important tool for the detection of the quark-gluon plasma in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. Direct-photon measurements were made in Pb + Pb collisions at GeV and in Au + Au collisions at
GeV. These results are reviewed and compared with model calculations.
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