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Dilepton production from chirally asymmetric matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-05-03 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We evaluate the dilepton production rate (DPR) from hot and dense chirally asymmetric quark matter. The presence of a finite chiral chemical potential (CCP) in the electromagnetic spectral function results in the appearance of new cut structures signifying additional scattering processes in the medium which leads to a significant enhancement in the DPR at lower values of invariant mass. The constituent quark mass evaluated using a 3-flavour Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model is also non-trivially affected by the CCP. These are found to result in a continuous dilepton production rate as a function of the invariant mass for higher values of temperature and baryonic chemical potential.

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@article{arxiv.2204.00892,
  title  = {Dilepton production from chirally asymmetric matter},
  author = {Nilanjan Chaudhuri and Snigdha Ghosh and Sourav Sarkar and Pradip Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.00892},
  year   = {2022}
}

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