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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

We consider the radiation of photons from quarks scattering on color-magnetic monopoles in the Quark-Gluon Plasma. We consider a temperature regime $T\gsim2T_c$, where monopoles can be considered as static, rare objects embedded into matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 Michael Lublinsky , Claudia Ratti , Edward Shuryak

The only way to obtain the space-time structure of heavy ion collision is through the study of two-particle momentum correlations. Thus we have studied the intensity correlation for the photons having fixed transverse momentum of one of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-17 Payal Mohanty , Mahatsab Mandal , Pradip K Roy

This review explores the current understanding of collective excitations and the dynamics of heavy quark propagation in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We focus on three core aspects: the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-29 Mohammad Yousuf Jamal , Bedangadas Mohanty

When the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) - a system of deconfined quarks and gluons - is in a nonequilibrium state, it is usually unstable with respect to color collective modes. The instabilities, which are expected to strongly influence dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 Stanislaw Mrowczynski , Bjoern Schenke , Michael Strickland

We investigate the hyperon polarization and its relation with the directed flow of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in non-central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} = 27$ GeV. A modified 3-dimensional (3D) Glauber model is developed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-11 Ze-Fang Jiang , Xiang-Yu Wu , Shanshan Cao , Ben-Wei Zhang

Plasmons of quark-gluon plasma - gluon collective modes - are systematically studied. The plasma is, in general, non-equilibrium but homogeneous. We consider anisotropic momentum distributions of plasma constituents which are obtained from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-16 Margaret E. Carrington , Katarzyna Deja , Stanislaw Mrowczynski

Unification of gravity with quantum mechanics is still a terra incognita. Photon polarization measurements offer a unique window for probing the interaction between these two fundamental forces. We have revealed that non-reciprocity in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Hansol Noh , Paul M. Alsing , Warner A. Miller , Doyeol Ahn

Charmonium directed flows are studied based on transport model coupled with the realistic three dimensional expansions of the bulk medium. The non-central symmetric nucleus-nucleus collisions can generate the rotating quark-gluon plasma…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Baoyi Chen , Maoxin Hu , Huanyu Zhang , Jiaxing Zhao

The quantum electrodynamical vacuum polarization effects arising in the collision of a high-energy proton beam and a strong, linearly polarized laser field are investigated. The probability that laser photons merge into one photon by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Di Piazza , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , C. H. Keitel

Little information is known about the polarization of gluons inside a longitudinally polarized proton. We investigate the sensitivity of photoproduction experiments with both beam and target longitudinally polarized to the polarization of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 S. Keller , J. F. Owens

Photons produced in heavy ion collisions escape virtually unperturbed from the surrounding medium, thus representing an excellent probe of the conditions at the emission point. Using the gauge/gravity duality, we calculate the rate of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-04 Leonardo Patino , Diego Trancanelli

A relativistic electron-positron beam propagating through a magnetized electron-ion plasma is shown to generate both circularly and linearly polarized synchrotron radiation. The degrees of circular and linear polarizations depend both on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Ujjwal Sinha , Christoph H. Keitel , Naveen Kumar

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

Polarization asymmetries in photoproduction of high transverse momentum mesons are a flavor sensitive way to measure the polarized quark distributions. We calculate the expected asymmetries in several models, and find that the asymmetries…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Andrei Afanasev , Carl E. Carlson , Christian Wahlquist

The productions of real photons from quark gluon plasma and hot hadronic matter formed after the nucleus - nucleus collisions at ultra-relativistic energies are discussed. The effects of the spectral shift of the hadrons at finite…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Jan-e Alam

The propagation of a relativistic electron-positron beam in a magnetized electron-ion plasma is studied, focusing on the polarization of the radiation generated in this case. Special emphasis is laid on investigating the polarization of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Ujjwal Sinha , Naveen Kumar

We propose a new approach to probe the initial fireball geometry in relativistic heavy-ion collisions using spin polarization. Specifically, we introduce polarization harmonics of open heavy hadrons as a novel observable sensitive to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-02 Amaresh Jaiswal

Sub-picosecond coincidence timing from nonlocal intensity interference of entangled photons allows quantum interferometry for plasmas. Using a warm plasma dispersion relation, we correlate phase measurement sensitivity with different plasma…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-08 Zhehui Wang , Yanhua Shih

Photons radiated in heavy-ion collisions are a penetrating probe, and as such can play an important role in the determination of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) transport coefficients. In this work we calculate the bulk viscous correction to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-19 Sigtryggur Hauksson , Chun Shen , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale