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Electromagnetic probes for critical fluctuations of phase transitions in dense QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-12-18 v1 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study how the dilepton production rates and electric conductivity are affected by the phase transition to color superconductivity and the QCD critical point. Effects of the soft modes associated with these phase transitions are incorporated through the photon self-energy called the Aslamazov-Larkin, Maki-Thompson, and density-of-states terms, which are responsible for the paraconductivity in metallic superconductors. We show that anomalous enhancements of the production rate in the low energy/momentum region and the conductivity occur around the respective critical points.

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@article{arxiv.2312.09483,
  title  = {Electromagnetic probes for critical fluctuations of phase transitions in dense QCD},
  author = {Toru Nishimura and Masakiyo Kitazawa and Teiji Kunihiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.09483},
  year   = {2023}
}