How robust is a thermal photon interpretation of the ALICE low-pT data?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Klasen, M ^a   Klein Bosing C ^a,b   Konig F ^a   Wessels, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heavy ion phenomenology; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892697146     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2013)119     Document Type: Article

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