Inclusive Photons and Neutral pions in Heavy-ion Collisions

The discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction has initiated the high-energy heavy-ion collisions program. It is expected such collisions to produce a deconfined phase of quarks and gluons. The prediction of the phase transition to occur in the vicinity of non-pQCD regime increase the challenges at the theoretical and experimental levels. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory was constructed to explore the QGP-hadronic matter phase transition.