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Dilepton emission from an equlibrating non-abelian plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We study dilepton production from a thermally equilibrating quark-gluon plasma expected to be formed in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The pre-equilibrium dynamics of quark-gluon plasma is studied within the color flux-tube model by solving non-abelian relativistic transport equations. This dilepton rate crucially depends on the collision time of the plasma. The results are compared with the Drell-Yan productions. We suggest that a measurement of this rate at RHIC and LHC will determine the initial field energy density.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9801321,
  title  = {Dilepton emission from an equlibrating non-abelian plasma},
  author = {Gouranga C Nayak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9801321},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 page latex, 4 postscrit figures, Revised verson

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