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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

Context: Observations of X-Ray sources harbouring a black hole and an accretion disc show the presence of at least two spectral components. One component is black-body radiation from an optically thick standard accretion disc. The other is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Mayer

We extend our holographic analysis of the emission of photons by a strongly coupled plasma subject to a very intense external magnetic field. We previously showed that in a particular model, any photon produced by the plasma had to be in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-17 Daniel Ávila , Francisco Nettel , Leonardo Patiño

The emission of direct (hard and thermal) photons from nucleon-nucleon Bremsstrahlung in heavy-ion collisions at Fermi energies is analyzed. We utilize a photon emission rate based on a quantum-field-theoretical model together with nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-30 Thomas Onyango , Ralf Rapp

Most theoretical descriptions of the production of solar flare bremsstrahlung radiation assume the collision of dilute accelerated particles with a cold, dense target plasma, neglecting interactions of the fast particles with each other.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. K. Galloway , P. Helander , A. L. MacKinnon , J. C. Brown

Within the real-time formalism (RTF) of thermal field theory,we apply the hard thermal loop (HTL) resummation technique to calculating effective two-loop thermodynamic potential in quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and its renormalization. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wang Xin , Li Jiarong

Two types of penetrating probes, direct photon and QCD jets, are investigated in the background of a small and rapidly expanding droplet of quark-gluon plasma. The additional thermal electromagnetic radiation results in a $\sim$50\%…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-14 Chun Shen , Chanwook Park , Jean-François Paquet , Gabriel S. Denicol , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

We consider QCD corrections to Higgs boson production through gluon-gluon fusion in hadron collisions. Using the recently evaluated two-loop amplitude for this process and the corresponding factorization formulae for soft-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 S. Catani , D. de Florian , M. Grazzini

We discuss the diffractive bremsstrahlung of a single photon in the $pp \to pp \gamma$ reaction at LHC energies and at forward photon rapidities. We compare the results for our standard approach, based on QFT and the tensor-Pomeron model,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-27 Piotr Lebiedowicz , Antoni Szczurek , Otto Nachtmann

A new approach for the calculation of collisional inverse bremsstrahlung absorption of laser light in dense plasmas is presented. Quantum statistical formalism used allows avoiding {\em ad hoc} cutoffs that were necessary in classical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-05-28 A. Grinenko , D. O. Gericke

The emission of hard real photons from thermalized expanding hadronic matter is dominated by the initial high-temperature expansion phase. Therefore, a measurement of photon emission in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions provides…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thorsten Renk

Photon energy spectra up to the kinematic limit have been measured in 190 MeV proton reactions with light and heavy nuclei to investigate the influence of the multiple-scattering process on the photon production. Relative to the predictions…

Photon-pair direct or jet-associated productions are important for relevant standard model measurement, Higgs and new physics searches at the LHC. The loop-induced gluon-fusion process gg -> \gamma\gamma g, which although formally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Qiang Li , Gao Xiangdong

The thermalization of quark gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is a crucial theoretical question in understanding the onset of hydrodynamics, and in a broad sense, a key step to the exploration of thermalization in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Shile Chen , Li Yan , Shuzhe Shi

We study the spectrum of the bremsstrahlung photons coming from the electrons and positrons, which are produced in the strong electromagnetic fields present in peripheral relativistic heavy ion collisions. We compare different approaches,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Kai Hencken , Dirk Trautmann , Gerhard Baur

Bremsstrahlung radiation emission is an important energy loss mechanism for energetic electrons in plasmas. In this paper we investigate the effect of spontaneous bremsstrahlung emission on the momentum-space structure of the electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ola Embréus , Adam Stahl , Tünde Fülöp

Direct photons have been proposed as a promising signature for the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Recently WA98 presented the first data on direct photons in Pb+Pb-collisions at SPS. At the same…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas Peitzmann , Markus H. Thoma

In this paper, we evaluate and analyze hard photons flow emission at $s\bar b\to\gamma g$ quarks system interaction in annihilation processes due to a quantum field theory in high energy physics. Two quantum wave vectors are assumed to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-26 Hadi J. M. Al-Agealy , Maher Sami Saleh

We reconsider the problem of neutrino pair bremsstrahlung emission originating from the electromagnetic collisions of charged particles in nucleonic ($npe\mu$) neutron star cores. Two limiting cases are considered: (i) protons are in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-23 P. S. Shternin

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 2009-11-07 Dinesh Kumar Srivastava , Bikash Sinha , Ioulia Kvasnikova , Charles Gale