Interpolation of hard and soft dilepton rates
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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 M ≪ (πT). 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
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