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Photon emission rates near the critical point in the linear sigma model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-04-01 v1

Abstract

Employing the linear sigma model, the effective masses of quasi-particle excitations are found to exhibit significant variations within the phase diagram, which has a critical point at non-zero chemical potential, where a first-order phase transition sets in. Soft-photon emission rates in lowest order display, for selected channels, a sensible dependence on the effective masses of the involved excitations and let us argue that they could map out the phase diagram.

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@article{arxiv.1502.02857,
  title  = {Photon emission rates near the critical point in the linear sigma model},
  author = {Falk Wunderlich and Burkhard Kampfer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.02857},
  year   = {2016}
}

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9th International Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement - CPOD2014 17-21 November 2014