Transient photon production in a QGP
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We discuss the shortcomings of a formula that has been used in the literature to compute the number of photons emitted by a hot or dense system during a finite time, and show that the transient effects it predicts for the photon rate are unphysical.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0408094,
title = {Transient photon production in a QGP},
author = {Eduardo S. Fraga and Francois Gelis and Dominique Schiff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0408094},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of Hadron Physics - RANP 2004, Angra dos Reis, Brazil