Are direct photons a clean signal of a thermalized quark-gluon plasma?

Physical Review D

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Boyanovsky, D ^a,b   De Vega, H J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b LPTHE   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY; GLUON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; PARAMETER; PHOTON; QUARK; RELIABILITY; TIME; VELOCITY;

EID: 0142188289     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.065018     Document Type: Article

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