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Non-Abelian plasma instabilities have been proposed as a possible explanation for fast isotropization of the quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We study the real-time evolution of these instabilities in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Anton Rebhan , Paul Romatschke , Michael Strickland

Dileptons serve as a clean and penetrating probe of the Quark--Gluon Plasma created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. In this work, we investigate thermal dilepton spectra and their elliptic flow through the dynamical conductivity that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 Ashutosh Dwibedi , Ankit Kumar Panda , Sabyasachi Ghosh , Victor Roy

We investigate thermal photon production in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) under strong magnetic fields using a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) framework. Adopting the Bjorken flow model with power-law decaying magnetic fields $\mathbf{B}(\tau) =…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-30 Jie Xiong , Xiang Fan , Jing Jing , Weishan Yang , Duan She , Ze-Fang Jiang

It has been predicted that dilepton production may be used as a quark-gluon plasma probe. We calculate the rapidity distributions of thermal dileptons produced by an evolving quark-gluon plasma assuming a longitudinal scaling expansion with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 R. Vogt , B. V. Jacak , P. L. McGaughey , P. V. Ruuskanen

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

In this paper we study the production of energetic di-leptons. We calculate the rate for 2 $\to$ 2 processes. The log term is obtained analytically and the constant term is calculated numerically. When the photon mass is of the order of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. E. Carrington , A. Gynther , P. Aurenche

We calculate the production of large mass dileptons from the passage of jets passing through the quark-gluon plasma. Using the relativistic kinetic theory, we rigorously derive the production rate for the jet-dilepton conversion in the hot…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Yong-Ping Fu , Yun-De Li

We investigate dilepton production in a thermalized quark--gluon plasma subject to global rotation, in the rigid rotating approximation. We consider a generic process involving quark-antiquark annihilation followed by the emission of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Jorge David Castaño-Yepes , Enrique Muñoz

We propose the angular distribution of lepton pairs produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions as a probe of thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma. We focus on dileptons with invariant masses large enough that they are produced…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-07 Maurice Coquet , Xiaojian Du , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Soeren Schlichting , Michael Winn

We calculate the order \alpha_s finite temperature correction to dilepton production in quark-gluon plasma arising from the two-loop photon self-energy diagrams for high invariant mass M >> T.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. I. Kapusta , S. M. H. Wong

There is now a substantial body of evidence that a deconfined quark-gluon plasma is created in ultrarelativistic collisions of heavy nuclei. Some key observables which are used to gauge the production of the quark-gluon plasma are the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-24 Michael Strickland

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

Dilepton production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is studied within the microscopic Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach, which is based on a dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) matched to reproduce lattice QCD…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 O. Linnyk , W. Cassing , E. L. Bratkovskaya , J. Manninen

According to the dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) - matched to reproduce lattice QCD results in thermodynamic limit, - the constituents of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) are massive and off-shell quasi-particles…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 O. Linnyk , E. L. Bratkovskaya , W. Cassing

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

The one-dimensional non-boost-invariant evolution of the quark-gluon plasma, presumably produced during the early stages of heavy-ion collisions, is analyzed within the frameworks of viscous and anisotropic hydrodynamics. We neglect…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Wojciech Florkowski , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Michael Strickland , Leonardo Tinti

We calculate the dilepton production rate from a thermalized quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energies. Higher-order QCD corrections are included by using an analytical correction factor $K^{(i)}$, which takes into account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 M. G. -H. Mostafa , Cheuk-Yin Wong , Lali Chatterjee , Zhong-Qi Wang

The plasma of quarks and gluons created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions turns out to be paramagnetic. In the presence of a background magnetic field, this paramagnetism thus leads to a pressure anisotropy, similar to anisotropies…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 N. Sadooghi , S. M. A. Tabatabaee

The spectrum of dileptons produced by the quark-gluon plasma in an ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collision depends only, to a good approximation, on the transverse mass M_t of the dilepton. This scaling is exact as long as transverse…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Maurice Coquet , Xiaojian Du , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Soeren Schlichting , Michael Winn

The dilepton radial flow in Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV is investigated. The space-time evolution of the fireball is described by a 2+1 dimensional ideal hydrodynamics with a variety of equations of state. The slope parameters…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-12 Jian Deng , Qun Wang , Nu Xu , Pengfei Zhuang