Photon production from an anisotropic quark-gluon plasma
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Abstract:
We calculate photon production from a quark-gluon plasma which is anisotropic in momentum space including the Compton scattering and quark/anti-quark annihilation processes. We show that for a quark-gluon plasma which has an oblate momentum-space anisotropy the photon production rate has an angular dependence which is peaked transverse to the beam line. We propose to use the angular dependence of high-energy medium photon production to experimentally determine the degree of momentum-space isotropy of a quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.- 25.75.-q
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- scattering: heavy ion
- quark gluon: plasma
- anisotropy
- quark gluon: Compton scattering
- quark antiquark: annihilation
- photon: emission
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