Soft photon production rate in resummed perturbation theory of high temperature QCD

Nov, 1993
14 pages
Published in:
  • Z.Phys.C 62 (1994) 337-342
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Report number:
  • LPTHE-ORSAY-93-46,
  • BI-TP-93-55

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Abstract: (cern)
We calculate the production rate of soft real photons from a hot quark -- gluon plasma using Braaten -- Pisarski's perturbative resummation method. To leading order in the QCD coupling constant gg we find a logarithmically divergent result for photon energies of order gTgT, where TT is the plasma temperature. This divergent behaviour is due to unscreened mass singularities in the effective hard thermal loop vertices in the case of a massless external photon.
  • quantum chromodynamics: finite temperature
  • perturbation theory: higher-order
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • photon: production
  • production: photon
  • radiative correction
  • photon: energy
  • photon: propagator
  • propagator: renormalization