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Photon Emission from Quark-Gluon Plasma: Complete Leading Order Results

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-02-03 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We compute the photon emission rate of an equilibrated, hot QCD plasma at zero chemical potential, to leading order in both alpha_{EM} and the QCD coupling g_s(T). This requires inclusion of near-collinear bremsstrahlung and inelastic pair annihilation contributions, and correct incorporation of Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal suppression effects for these processes. Analogous results for a QED plasma are also included.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0111107,
  title  = {Photon Emission from Quark-Gluon Plasma: Complete Leading Order Results},
  author = {Peter Arnold and Guy D. Moore and Laurence G. Yaffe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0111107},
  year   = {2010}
}

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23 pages, including 9 figures