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Electromagnetic response of quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-19 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the electromagnetic response of the quark-gluon plasma in AA-collisions at RHIC and LHC energies for a realistic space-time evolution of the plasma fireball. We demonstrate that for a realistic electric conductivity the electromagnetic response of the plasma is in a quantum regime when the induced electric current does not generate a classical electromagnetic field, and can only lead to a rare emission of single photons.

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@article{arxiv.1404.5047,
  title  = {Electromagnetic response of quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions},
  author = {B. G. Zakharov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.5047},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Phys. Lett. B