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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-\nc\nc plasmas with a gravity dual. For the J/ΨJ/\Psi the corresponding peak lies between 3 and 5 GeV and could be observed at the LHC.

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@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

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