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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

In the framework of closed time path thermal field theory we investigate the production rate of hard thermal photons from a QCD plasma away from equilibrium. Dynamical screening provides a finite rate for chemically non-equilibrated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Baier , M. Dirks , K. Redlich , D. Schiff

Using the second order Israel-Stewart hydrodynamics we discuss the effect of viscosity on photon production in a parton plasma created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We find that photon production rates can enhance by several factors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-28 Jitesh R. Bhatt , V. Sreekanth

We discuss the implementation of leading-order photon production in nonequilibrium partonic transport simulations. In this framework photons are produced by microscopic scatterings, where we include the exact matrix elements of Compton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-17 Moritz Greif , Florian Senzel , Heiner Kremer , Kai Zhou , Carsten Greiner , Zhe Xu

Photon emission arising in the course of transition between the states of quark-gluon and hadron plasma has been considered. Single-photon distributions and two-photon correlations in central rapidity region have been calculated for heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Andreev

We discuss the role of running coupling on the thermal photon yield from quark gluon plasma. It is shown that the photon production rate from the partonic phase is considerably enhanced when running coupling is considered with respect to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Mahatsab Mandal , Sukanya Mitra , Pradip Roy , Sourav Sarkar

Soft photons produced in heavy ion collisions are an important tool for probing the properties of the quark-gluon plasma. It is therefore crucial to understand the background - soft photons produced in elementary collisions. Low theorem…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Frasher Loshaj , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

The quantum statistical interference between identical particles emitted from a completely chaotic source is expected to provide valuable input for the space time description of the system. Intensity interferometry of thermal photons…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Dinesh K. Srivastava , Rupa Chatterjee , Somnath De

The polarization of direct photons produced in an ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collision reflects the momentum anisotropy of the quark-gluon plasma created in the collision. This paper presents a general framework, based on the photon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-19 Gordon Baym , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Michael Strickland

We calculate leading-order medium photon and dilepton yields from a quark-gluon plasma using (3+1)-dimensional anisotropic hydrodynamics. In the case of dileptons, at leading-order it is sufficient to take into account non-equilibrium…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-15 Lusaka Bhattacharya , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Michael Strickland

Cross sections for photon production in hadronic scattering processes have been calculated according to an effective chiral field theory. For $\pi + \rho \to \pi + \gamma$ and $\pi + \pi \to \rho + \gamma$ processes, these cross sections…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Anna Schäfer , Juan M. Torres-Rincon , Charles Gale , Hannah Elfner

We calculate the thermal rate of real-photon production in the quark-gluon plasma at a temperature of $T=254$ MeV using lattice QCD. The calculation is based on the difference between the spatially transverse and longitudinal parts of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-11-18 Marco Cè , Tim Harris , Harvey B. Meyer , Aman Steinberg , Arianna Toniato

A theoretical framework is developed for treating the quantization of the photons in a spacetime with a longitudinal expansion. This can be used to study the production of the photons through the non-equilibrium relaxation of a disoriented…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Da-Shin Lee , Yeo-Yie Charng , Kin-Wang Ng

We explore the intensity correlations for thermal photons having $K_T\leq$ 2 GeV/$c$, for central collisions of heavy nuclei at RHIC and LHC energies. These photons get competing contributions from the quark and the hadronic phases. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Dinesh Kumar Srivastava , Rupa Chatterjee

In relativistic heavy ion collisions, top quarks can be produced by photon-gluon fusion when a photon from the Weizs\"acker-Williams virtual photon field of one nucleus interacts with a gluon in the other nucleus. Photoproduction with heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 Spencer R. Klein , Joakim Nystrand , Ramona Vogt

This paper investigates the electromagnetic production of lepton pairs with low transverse momentum in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We estimate the initial photons' transverse momentum contributions by employing models where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-18 Spencer Klein , Al Mueller , Bo-Wen Xiao , Feng Yuan

We study the production of entropy in the context of a nonequilibrium chiral phase transition. The dynamical symmetry breaking is modeled by a Langevin equation for the order parameter coupled to the Bjorken dynamics of a quark plasma. We…

Quantum nonreciprocity-a fundamental phenomenon enabling directional control of quantum states and photon correlations-has long been recognized as pivotal for quantum technologies. However, the experimental realization of nonreciprocal…

Direct photons play an important role as electromagnetic probes from the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) which occurs during ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this context, it is of particular interest how the finite lifetime of the QGP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-02 Frank Michler , Hendrik van Hees , Dennis D. Dietrich , Carsten Greiner

The production of single photons in $Pb+Pb$ collisions at the CERN SPS as measured by the WA98 experiment is analysed. A quark gluon plasma is assumed to be formed initially, which expands, cools, hadronizes, and undergoes freeze-out. A…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Dinesh Kumar Srivastava , Bikash Sinha