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Physics Letters B

Volume 245, Issues 3–4, 16 August 1990, Pages 605-608
Physics Letters B

The cold quark-gluon plasma as a source of very soft photons in high energy collisions☆

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Abstract

We present a qualitative discussion and a detailed model calculation of very soft photon production by globs of cold quark-gluon plasma, a mechanism proposed by Van Hove as part of a possible common explanation of various “ultrasoft” effects observed in high energy collisions. We successfully compare compare the model with published data and discuss its extrapolation to ongoing experiments.

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We would like to dedicate this paper to Yves Goldschmidt- Clermont who, before his untimely death, devoted so much work and thought to the experiment on K+p collisions and to the further search for ultrasoft photon effects.

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