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We study the thermal emission of photons from hot and dense strongly interacting hadronic matter at temperatures close to the expected phase transition to the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Earlier calculations of photon radiation from ensembles…

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We compute the photon emission rate from a quark-gluon plasma with an anisotropic particle momentum distribution induced by a non-vanishing local shear pressure tensor. Our calculation includes photon production through Compton scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Chun Shen , Jean-Francois Paquet , Ulrich Heinz , Charles Gale

A systematic investigation of hard thermal photon spectra from central ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions is presented with emphasis on the effects of bremsstrahlung processes in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Bremsstrahlung photon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Daniel Steffen

Parton Cascade Models (PCM), which describe the full time-evolution of a system of quarks and gluons using pQCD interactions are ideally suited for the description of jet production, including the emission, evolution and energy-loss of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Christopher E. Coleman-Smith , Steffen A. Bass , Dinesh K. Srivastava

In-medium interactions of a particle in a hot plasma are considered in the framework of thermal field theory. The formalism to calculate gauge invariant rates for photon and dilepton production from the medium is given. In the application…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Quack , P. A. Henning

Ultra-relativistic electrons initiate electromagnetic showers in ordinary matter that evolve through bremsstrahlung and pair production. At very high energy, the quantum mechanical duration of bremsstrahlung becomes longer than the mean…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Peter Arnold , Joshua Bautista , Omar Elgedawy , Shahin Iqbal

We derive a general expression for the absorptive part of the one-loop photon polarization tensor in a strongly magnetized quark-gluon plasma at nonzero baryon chemical potential. To demonstrate the application of the main result in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-19 Xinyang Wang , Igor Shovkovy

Recently lots of efforts have been made to obtain the next to leading order and Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal corrections to the thermal dilepton emission rate in perturbative QCD. Here we apply these results to the plasma created in heavy ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-13 Yannis Burnier , Chiara Gastaldi

The creation of electron-positron pair by a photon and the bremsstrahlung of an electron in a medium are considered in high-energy region, where influence of the multiple scattering on the processes (the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

We study the electromagnetic radiation from a hot and slightly strong interacting fireball system of quark-gluon plasma using the Boltzmann distribution function for the incoming particles and Bose-Einstein distribution for gluon in first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. S. Singh , Agam K. Jha

We present results for the thermal photon emissivity of the quark-gluon plasma derived from spatially transverse vector correlators computed in lattice QCD at a temperature of 250 MeV. The analysis of the spectral functions, performed at…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-09-21 Marco Cè , Tim Harris , Ardit Krasniqi , Harvey B. Meyer , Csaba Török

A new mechanism of photon emission in the quark-gluon plasma is proposed. Photon dispersion relation in the presence of the $CP$-odd topological regions generated by the chiral anomaly acquires an imaginary mass. It allows photon radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-03 Kirill Tuchin

The spectral distribution of electron-positron pair created by photon and the spectral distribution of photons radiated from high-energy electron in an oriented single crystal is calculated using the method which permits inseparable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

We investigate photon emission at the hadronization stage from a quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A recombination-model picture suggests that a quark and an antiquark bind into a meson state in hadronization,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Hirotsugu Fujii , Kazunori Itakura , Katsunori Miyachi , Chiho Nonaka

The photon emissivity of quark-gluon plasma probes the interactions in the medium and differs qualitatively between a weakly coupled and a strongly coupled plasma in the soft-photon regime. The photon emissivity is given by the product of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-02 Marco Cè , Tim Harris , Harvey B. Meyer , Arianna Toniato , Csaba Török

We study the role played by the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Midgal (LPM) effect in relativistic collisions of hadrons and heavy nuclei, within a parton cascade model. We find that the LPM effect strongly affects the gluon multiplication due to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Thorsten Renk , Steffen A. Bass , Dinesh K. Srivastava

The bremsstrahlung of an electron and $e^{-}e^{+}$-pair creation by a photon in a medium is considered in high-energy region, where influence of the multiple scattering on the processes (the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) effect) becomes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

We study the role of running coupling and the effect of variation of the thermal quark mass on contribution of the collinear bremsstrahlung and annihilation to photon emission in $AA$ collisions in a scheme similar to that used in our…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 B. G. Zakharov

By making use of an explicit representation for the imaginary part of the photon polarization tensor in terms of transitions between the Landau levels of light quarks, we study the angular dependence of direct photon emission from a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-20 Xinyang Wang , Igor A. Shovkovy , Lang Yu , Mei Huang

The thermal photon emissivity of the quark-gluon plasma is determined by the in-medium spectral function of the electromagnetic current at lightlike kinematics, $\sigma(\omega)$. In this work, we present the first lattice QCD results on…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-09-19 Marco Cè , Tim Harris , Ardit Krasniqi , Harvey B. Meyer , Csaba Török