Electromagnetic probes of heavy ion collisions: recent developments

Abstract

The current status of photon and dilepton emission in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions is reviewed, and recent developments are highlighted. The importance of emissions at early, intermediate and late times is emphasized.

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, contribution to Hard Probes 2016 proceedings. Figure 2 corrected. To be published in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings