Photon emission from a momentum-anisotropic quark-gluon plasma
Abstract
Here, we compute the photon emission rate from a quark-gluon plasma with an anisotropic particle momentum distribution induced by a non-vanishing local shear pressure tensor. Our calculation includes photon production through Compton scattering and quark-antiquark annihilation at leading order in αs , with all off-equilibrium corrections to leading order in the momentum anisotropy. For fermions we prove that the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger relation holds in the hard loop regime for any particle momentum distribution function that is reflection symmetric. This supports the equivalence, for 2-to-2 scattering processes, of the diagrammatic and kinetic approaches to calculating the photon emission rate. We compare the viscous rates from these two approaches at weak and realistic coupling strengths and provide parametrizations of the equilibrium and viscous photon emission rates for phenomenological studies in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
- Authors:
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- McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada); The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada)
- The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- Frankfurt Inst. for Advanced Studies (Germany)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); Hydro-Quebec; Fonds de Recherche du Quebec; Helmholtz International Center for FAIR (HIC for FAIR)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1604535
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1181129
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0004286; SC0004104
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review C, Nuclear Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 91; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0556-2813
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Shen, Chun, Paquet, Jean-François, Heinz, Ulrich, and Gale, Charles. Photon emission from a momentum-anisotropic quark-gluon plasma. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.91.014908.
Shen, Chun, Paquet, Jean-François, Heinz, Ulrich, & Gale, Charles. Photon emission from a momentum-anisotropic quark-gluon plasma. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.91.014908
Shen, Chun, Paquet, Jean-François, Heinz, Ulrich, and Gale, Charles. Wed .
"Photon emission from a momentum-anisotropic quark-gluon plasma". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.91.014908. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1604535.
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abstractNote = {Here, we compute the photon emission rate from a quark-gluon plasma with an anisotropic particle momentum distribution induced by a non-vanishing local shear pressure tensor. Our calculation includes photon production through Compton scattering and quark-antiquark annihilation at leading order in αs , with all off-equilibrium corrections to leading order in the momentum anisotropy. For fermions we prove that the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger relation holds in the hard loop regime for any particle momentum distribution function that is reflection symmetric. This supports the equivalence, for 2-to-2 scattering processes, of the diagrammatic and kinetic approaches to calculating the photon emission rate. We compare the viscous rates from these two approaches at weak and realistic coupling strengths and provide parametrizations of the equilibrium and viscous photon emission rates for phenomenological studies in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.},
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year = {Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2015},
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