Coherence effects in radiative scattering: A Study of an exactly solvable hard scattering model

Mar, 1993
21 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.A 561 (1993) 501-524
Report number:
  • GSI-93-13A,
  • GSI-93-13

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The bremsstrahl production of photons in dense matter is reinvestigated using the example of an exactly solvable quantum-mechanical model in one space dimension. Coherence phenomena between successive radiative scatterings among the constituents lead to a modification of the production cross section in the medium relative to the incoherent quasi-free prescription used in kinetic models. Analytic expressions for the correction factor have been derived comparing the quantum rates with the corresponding incoherent quasi-free rates. The result has implications for the kinetic description of all kinds of radiative processes in nucleus-nucleus collisions, both on the level of hadron and parton dynamics.
  • nucleus nucleus: nuclear reaction
  • nuclear matter
  • bremsstrahlung: production
  • production: bremsstrahlung
  • model: interaction
  • interaction: model
  • hard scattering
  • quantum mechanics
  • many-body problem
  • effect: coherence