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Interpolation of hard and soft dilepton rates

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-22 v2

Abstract

Strict next-to-leading order (NLO) results for the dilepton production rate from a QCD plasma at temperatures above a few hundred MeV suffer from a breakdown of the loop expansion in the regime of soft invariant masses M^2 << (pi T)^2. In this regime an LPM resummation is needed for obtaining the correct leading-order result. We show how to construct an interpolation between the hard NLO and the leading-order LPM expression. The final numerical results are presented in a tabulated form, suitable for insertion into hydrodynamical codes.

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@article{arxiv.1407.7955,
  title  = {Interpolation of hard and soft dilepton rates},
  author = {I. Ghisoiu and M. Laine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.7955},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages. v2: wordings clarified