Photon and dilepton emission from the quark-gluon plasma: Some general considerations
The emission rates for photons and dileptons from a quark-gluon plasma are related to the thermal expectation value of an electromagnetic current-current correlation function. This correlation function possesses an invariant-tensor decomposition with structure functions entirely analogous to W/sub 1/ and W/sub 2/ of deep-inelastic scattering of leptons from hadronic targets. The thermal scaling properties of the appropriate structure functions for thermal emission are derived. The thermal structure functions may be computed in a weak-coupling expansion at high plasma temperature. The rates for thermal emission are estimated, and for dileptons, using conservative estimates of the plasma temperature, the thermal-emission process is argued to dominate over the Drell-Yan process for dilepton masses 600 MeV
- Research Organization:
- Theory Group, MS-106, Fermilab P.O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510
- OSTI ID:
- 6092665
- Journal Information:
- Phys. Rev. D; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. D; (United States) Vol. 31:3; ISSN PRVDA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CORRELATION FUNCTIONS
DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING
DRELL MODEL
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
EMISSION
FERMIONS
FIELD THEORIES
FUNCTIONS
INELASTIC SCATTERING
INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
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LEPTONS
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MASS SPECTRA
MATTER
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
PAIR PRODUCTION
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
PHOTON EMISSION
PRECOMPOUND-NUCLEUS EMISSION
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
QUARK MATTER
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