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The hot and dense strongly interacting matter created in collisions of heavy nuclei at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) energies is modeled with relativistic hydrodynamics, and the spectra of photons produced in these events are calculated. Several different sources are considered, and their relative importance compared, showing the importance of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) contribution, while the sum of all contributions is in good agreement with recent experimental results from PHENIX.

In 2005, the Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) created a PhD Thesis Prize competition for best thesis in Experimental or Theoretial Nuclear Physics by any student receiving their PhD degree from a Canadian University in the current or prior calendar year. The DNP is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2007 DNP Thesis Prize is Simon Turbide. Dr. Turbide was awarded his PhD by McGill University in 2006 for the work “Electromagnetic radiation from matter under extreme conditions”.