Direct photons: a nonequilibrium signal of the expanding quark-gluon plasma
arXiv:hep-ph/0101251 · doi:10.1016/S0375-9474(01)01288-X
Abstract
Direct photon production from a longitudinally expanding quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies is studied with a real-time kinetic description that is consistently incorporated with hydrodynamics. Within Bjorken's hydrodynamical model, energy nonconserving (anti)quark bremsstrahlung q(\bar{q})\to q(\bar{q})γand quark-antiquark annihilation q\bar{q}\to γare shown to be the dominant nonequilibrium effects during the transient lifetime of the QGP. For central collisions we find a significant excess of direct photons in the range of transverse momentum 1-2 \lesssim p_T \lesssim 5 GeV/c as compared to equilibrium results. The photon rapidity distribution exhibits a central plateau. The transverse momentum distribution at midrapidity falls off with a {\em power law} p^{-ν}_T with 2.5 \lesssim ν\lesssim 3 as a consequence of these energy nonconserving processes, providing a distinct experimental {\em nonequilibrium signature}. The power law exponent νincreases with the initial temperature of the QGP and hence with the total multiplicity rapidity distribution dN_π/dy.
arXiv commentLaTeX (elsart.cls), 33 pages, 4 eps figures, updated with data for LHC, to appear in Nucl. Phys. A
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