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Gradient Correction to Photon Emission Rate at Strong Coupling

Nuclear Theory 2015-04-28 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We compute the correction to the photon emission rate in first order of shear components of fluid velocity gradients, σij\sigma_{ij}, in near-equilibrium hydrodynamic plasma at strong coupling regime, using the real-time Schwinger-Keldysh formalism in AdS/CFT correspondence. Our result is an integral of an analytic expression. We observe that the gradient correction to the photon emission rate at strong coupling is about 0.3 - 0.4 times of the equilibrium rate in units of σij/T\sigma_{ij}/T.

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@article{arxiv.1409.7674,
  title  = {Gradient Correction to Photon Emission Rate at Strong Coupling},
  author = {Kiminad A. Mamo and Ho-Ung Yee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.7674},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

28 pages, 9 figures; references added; more discussion about the phenomenological importance of the gradient correction added in the Discussion section, published in PRD

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