VIRTUAL-PHOTON BREMSSTRAHLUNG IN A QUARK-GLUON PLASMA

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作者
CLEYMANS, J
GOLOVIZNIN, VV
REDLICH, K
机构
[1] UNIV CAPE TOWN,DEPT PHYS,RONDEBOSCH 7700,SOUTH AFRICA
[2] KURCHATOV INST ATOM ENERGY,123182 MOSCOW,RUSSIA
[3] UNIV WROCLAW,DEPT THEORET PHYS,PL-50137 WROCLAW,POLAND
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1993年 / 47卷 / 03期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.47.989
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
The production of dielectron pairs due to bremsstrahlung of quarks is calculated in a hot quark-gluon plasma. It is shown that multiple scattering of quarks leads to an infrared stable result for dielectron emission rates. The influence of the Landau-Pomeranchuk effect, due to destructive interference of virtual photons, is calculated and analyzed. For the soft electromagnetic signal from a QCD plasma, this effect is more important than the one due to the thermal quark mass; it furthermore reduces significantly the dielectron production rates. It is also shown that in the low invariant-mass region the contributions from quark and pion virtual bremsstrahlung are of the same order of magnitude.
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页码:989 / 997
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