DIRECT PHOTON PRODUCTION IN HIGH ENERGY HADRONIC AND NUCLEAR COLLISIONS: MEASURED DATA VERSUS A MODEL

Abstract

This work is in response to the stimulus received from our fairly successful attempt at understanding in the recent past the problem of direct photon production only in gold–gold and lead–lead collisions from the viewpoint of a non-standard approach. The same nonconventional formalism would, once again, be applied to analyze the vast array of measurements on the inclusive cross sections of direct photons produced in several purely nuclear or hadronuclear collisions at very high energies. Besides, some of the cross section ratios would also be calculated and be compared with data on them. All this reveals and indicates a modest agreement between the model-based calculations and the actual measurements. The authors would also endeavor here to adduce the reasons for the discrepancies, if any.