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Photon Production from a Quark-Gluon-Plasma at Finite Baryon Chemical Potential

Nuclear Theory 2012-09-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We compute the photon production of a QCD plasma at leading order in the strong coupling with a finite baryon chemical potential. Our approach starts from the real time formalism of finite temperature field theory. We identify the class of diagrams contributing at leading order when a finite chemical potential is added and resum them to perform a full treatment of the LPM effect similar to the one performed by Arnold, Moore, and Yaffe at zero chemical potential. Our results show that the contribution of 232\mapsto 3 and 323\mapsto 2 processes grows as the chemical potential grows.

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@article{arxiv.1206.6086,
  title  = {Photon Production from a Quark-Gluon-Plasma at Finite Baryon Chemical Potential},
  author = {Hualong Gervais and Sangyong Jeon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6086},
  year   = {2012}
}

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28 pages, 14 figures