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We calculate leading-order dilepton yields from a quark-gluon plasma which has a time-dependent anisotropy in momentum space. Such anisotropies can arise during the earliest stages of quark-gluon plasma evolution due to the rapid…

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We present state-of-the-art calculations of viscous photon emission from nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC. Fluctuating initial density profiles are evolved with event-by-event viscous hydrodynamics. Momentum spectra of thermal photons…

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We present calculations of dielectron anisotropic flow in heavy-ion collisions at HADES beam energies from a hadronic transport approach. The ongoing experimental analysis employs the traditional reaction plane method to evaluate the flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-03 Renan Hirayama , Hannah Elfner

Momentum anisotropy present during the hydrodynamic evolution of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in RHIC may lead to chromo-Weibel instability and turbulent chromo-fields.The dynamics of the quark and gluon momentum distributions in this case is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Vinod Chandra , V. Sreekanth

We calculate the viscous pressure tensor of the quark-gluon plasma in strong magnetic field. It is azimuthally anisotropic and is characterized by five shear viscosity coefficients, four of which vanish when the field strength eB is much…

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Using the Landau-level representation for the imaginary part of the photon polarization tensor, we derive an explicit expression for the dilepton production rate from a hot quark-gluon plasma in a quantizing background magnetic field. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-16 Xinyang Wang , Igor A. Shovkovy

We calculate medium photons due to Compton and annihilation processes in an anisotropic media. The effects of time-dependent momentum-space anisotropy of {\em Quark-Gluon-Plasma} (QGP) on the medium photon production are discussed. Such an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-19 Lusaka Bhattacharya , Pradip Roy

Using a hadronic framework, we derive an explicit expression for photon production from neutral pions in a weak background magnetic field. Our calculation is built on the proton triangle diagram with an effective Yukawa $\pi^0$-proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-09 Xinyang Wang , Fan Lin , Igor Shovkovy

We calculate leading-order dilepton yields from a quark-gluon plasma which has a time-dependent anisotropy in momentum space. Such anisotropies can arise during the earliest stages of quark-gluon plasma evolution due to the rapid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mauricio Martinez , Michael Strickland

Photons produced in the pre-equilibrium/pre-hydro stage of the quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions were computed using parton distribution functions obtained from solutions of the Boltzmann equation. The effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Jessica Churchill , Li Yan , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

We introduce distribution functions for quarks and gluons in the Glasma and discuss how they satisfy various relationships of statistical physics. We use these distributions to compute photon production in the early stages of heavy ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Larry McLerran , Bjoern Schenke

Heavy quark (HQ) momentum ($\kappa$) and spatial diffusion ($D_s$) coefficients are computed in a non-perturbative thermal QCD medium in the presence of a background magnetic field of arbitrary strength. Both perturbative and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-28 Debarshi Dey , Aritra Bandyopadhyay , Yifeng Sun , Santosh K. Das

In heavy-ion collisions, quark-gluon plasma is likely to be produced with sizable initial pressure anisotropy, which may leave an imprint on electromagnetic observables. In order to model a strongly coupled anisotropic plasma, we use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Anton Rebhan , Dominik Steineder

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

We calculate the yield and elliptic flow of mid-rapidity dileptons emitted from the quark-gluon plasma generated in Pb-Pb collisions at LHC. We use relativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics for the 3+1 dimensional evolution of the quark-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-26 Babak S. Kasmaei , Michael Strickland

Electromagnetic probes such as direct photons and dileptons are crucial to study the properties of a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in heavy ion collisions. Based on the (3+1)-dimensional event-by-event viscous hydrodynamic model EPOS…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-12 Sheng-Xu Liu , Fu-Ming Liu , Klaus Werner , Meng Yue

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

We study the multiplicity and rapidity dependence of thermal and prompt photon production in p+Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV, using a (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic framework. Direct photon anisotropic flow coefficients $v^\gamma_{2,3}$ and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-19 Chun Shen , Jean-Francois Paquet , Gabriel S. Denicol , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

It is demonstrated for the first time that in spite of well known big similarities between atomic ionization by photons and fast electrons, a qualitative difference exists in angular anisotropy parameters of electrons knocked out in these…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Ya. Amusia , L. V. Chernysheva , E. Z. Liverts

This paper investigates the production of non-prompt photons originating from rotating synchrotron radiation (RoSyRa), specifically the emission of photons by a rigidly rotating quark-gluon plasma in thermal equilibrium, in the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 Matteo Buzzegoli , Sergiu Busuioc , Jonathan D. Kroth , Nandagopal Vijayakumar , Kirill Tuchin