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Photon and dilepton emission anisotropy for a magnetized quark-gluon plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-04-09 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the higher-order anisotropy coefficients v4v_4 and v6v_6 in the photon and dilepton emission from a hot magnetized quark-gluon plasma. Together with the earlier predictions for v2v_2, these results show a distinctive pattern of the anisotropy coefficients in several kinematic regimes. In the case of photon emission, nonzero coefficients vnv_n (with even nn) have opposite signs at small and large values of the transverse momentum (i.e., kTeBk_T\lesssim \sqrt{|eB|} and kTeBk_T\gtrsim \sqrt{|eB|}, respectively). Additionally, the vnv_n signs alternate with increasing nn, and their approximate values decrease as 1/n21/n^2 in magnitude. The anisotropy of dilepton emission is well pronounced only at large transverse momenta and small invariant masses (i.e., when kTeBk_T\gtrsim \sqrt{|eB|} and MeBM\lesssim \sqrt{|eB|}). The corresponding v4v_4 and v6v_6 coefficients are of the same magnitude and show a similar alternating sign pattern with increasing nn as in the photon emission.

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@article{arxiv.2307.07557,
  title  = {Photon and dilepton emission anisotropy for a magnetized quark-gluon plasma},
  author = {Xinyang Wang and Igor A. Shovkovy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.07557},
  year   = {2024}
}

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12 pages, 6 multi-panel figures, final version published in Physical Review D