A Photon Peak due to Strong Coupling
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-18 v2
Abstract
We show that if a flavour-less vector meson remains bound after deconfinement, and if its limiting velocity in the quark-gluon plasma is subluminal, then this meson produces a distinct peak in the spectrum of thermal photons emitted by the plasma. We also demonstrate that this effect is a universal property of all strongly coupled, large- plasmas with a gravity dual. For the the corresponding peak lies between 3 and 5 GeV and could be observed at the LHC.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.4012,
title = {A Photon Peak due to Strong Coupling},
author = {Jorge Casalderrey-Solana},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4012},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee. V2: minor corrections