Interpolation of hard and soft dilepton rates

Jul 30, 2014
16 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 10 (2014) 083
  • Published: Oct 14, 2014
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Abstract: (Springer)
Strict next-to-leading order (NLO) results for the dilepton production rate from a QCD plasma at temperatures above a few hundred MeV suffer from a breakdown of the loop expansion in the regime of soft invariant masses M2^{2} ≪ (πT)2^{2}. In this regime an LPM resummation is needed for obtaining the correct leading-order result. We show how to construct an interpolation between the hard NLO and the leading-order LPM expression, which is theoretically consistent in both regimes and free from double counting. The final numerical results are presented in a tabulated form, suitable for insertion into hydrodynamical codes.
Note:
  • 16 pages. v2: wordings clarified
  • Thermal Field Theory
  • Quark-Gluon Plasma
  • Resummation
  • dilepton: production
  • production: thermal
  • quantum chromodynamics: plasma
  • quantum chromodynamics: correction
  • correction: higher-order
  • higher-order: 1
  • quantum chromodynamics: finite temperature