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We study dilepton production from a thermally equilibrating quark-gluon plasma expected to be formed in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The pre-equilibrium dynamics of quark-gluon plasma is studied within the color flux-tube model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gouranga C Nayak

We initiate the study of equilibration rates of strongly coupled quark-gluon plasmas in the absence of conformal symmetry. We primarily consider a supersymmetric mass deformation within ${\cal N}=2^{*}$ gauge theory and use holography to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-24 Alex Buchel , Michal P. Heller , Robert C. Myers

A fireball of QGP is evoluted at temperature dependent chemical potential by a statistical model in the pionic medium. We study the dilepton emission rate at temperature dependent chemical potential (TDCP) from such a fireball of QGP. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-08 S. Somorendro Singh , Yogesh Kumar

Dileptons, as an electromagnetic probe, are crucial to study the properties of a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in heavy ion collisions. We calculated the invariant mass spectra and the anisotropic emission of thermal dielectrons from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-12 Sheng-Xu Liu , Fu-Ming Liu , Klaus Werner , Meng Yue

We calculate the transverse momentum and invariant mass dependence of elliptic flow of thermal dileptons for Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The system is described using hydrodynamics, with the assumption of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rupa Chatterjee , Dinesh K. Srivastava , Ulrich W. Heinz , Charles Gale

Dileptons produced during heavy-ion collisions represent a unique probe of the QCD phase diagram, and convey information about the state of the strongly interacting system at the moment their preceding off-shell photon is created. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-08 Jessica Churchill , Lipei Du , Charles Gale , Greg Jackson , Sangyong Jeon

We calculate rapidity distribution of photons due to Compton and annihilation processes from {\em Quark Gluon Plasma} (QGP) with pre-equilibrium momentum-space anisotropy. We also include contributions from hadronic matter with late stage…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Lusaka Bhattacharya , Pradip Roy

The quark gluon plasma generated in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions may possess sizable momentum-space anisotropies that cause the longitudinal and transverse pressures in the local rest frame to be significantly different. We review…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Michael Strickland

We calculate the $p_T$ distributions of jet conversion photons from {\em Quark Gluon Plasma} with pre-equilibrium momentum-space anisotropy. A phenomenological model has been used for the time evolution of hard momentum scale $p_{\rm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-28 Lusaka Bhattacharya , Pradip Roy

In this article, we analyze the effects of stochastic magnetic fluctuations with respect to an intense magnetic field background over the yields for photon and dilepton emission processes in a thermalized quark-gluon plasma phase. Such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Jorge David Castaño-Yepes , Enrique Muñoz

This work calculates the first correction to the leading order q\={q} dilepton production rates due to shear viscosity in an expanding gas. The modified rates are integrated over the space-time history of a viscous hydrodynamic simulation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kevin Dusling , Shu Lin

Pressure isotropization of an equilibrating quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions is studied within the framework of a multi-phase transport model (AMPT). The time evolution of the bulk properties of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-05-06 Bin Zhang , Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko

Viscous modifications to the thermal distributions of quark-antiquarks and gluons have been studied in a quasi-particle description of the quark-gluon-plasma medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. The model is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-11-05 Vinod Chandra , V. Sreekanth

We study the thermal dilepton and photon production from relativistic heavy ion collisions in presence of viscosities by employing the recently developed second order dissipative hydrodynamic formulation estimated within a quasiparticle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Lakshmi J. Naik , V. Sreekanth

The emission of real photons from a momentum-anisotropic quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is affected by both the collective flow of the radiating medium and the modification of local rest frame emission rate due to the anisotropic momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-29 Babak Salehi Kasmaei , Michael Strickland

It is argued that, in heavy ion collisions, thermal dileptons are good probes of the transport properties of the medium created in such events, and also of its early-time dynamics, usually inaccessible to hadronic observables. In this work…

We show, through analytic arguments, numerical calculations, and comparison with experimental data, that the ratio of the high-p_T observables v_2/(1-R_AA) reaches a well-defined saturation value at high p_T, and that this ratio depends…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-01 Magdalena Djordjevic , Stefan Stojku , Marko Djordjevic , Pasi Huovinen

The quark-gluon plasma created in a relativistic heavy-ion collisions possesses a sizable pressure anisotropy in the local rest frame at very early times after the initial nuclear impact and this anisotropy only slowly relaxes as the system…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-27 Michael Strickland

Relativistic heavy ion collisions have reached energies that enable the creation of a novel state of matter termed the quark-gluon plasma. Many observables point to a picture of the medium as rapidly equilibrating and expanding as a nearly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 James L. Nagle , Ian G. Bearden , William A. Zajc

Viscous modifications to the thermal distributions of quark-antiquarks and gluons have been studied in a quasi-particle description of the quark-gluon-plasma medium created in relativistic heavy ion collision experiments. The model is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-02 Vinod Chandra