Thermal photon production rate from nonequilibrium quantum field theory

Apr, 1997
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 56 (1997) 2548-2554
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Report number:
  • BI-TP-97-11,
  • LPTHE-ORSAY-97-15,
  • GSI-PREPRINT-97-22

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Abstract:
In the framework of closed time path thermal field theory we investigate the production rate of hard thermal photons from a QCD plasma away from equilibrium. Dynamical screening provides a finite rate for chemically non-equilibrated distributions of quarks and gluons just as it does in the equilibrium situation. Pinch singularities are shown to be absent in the real photon rate even away from equilibrium.
  • 12.38.Bx
  • 13.85.Qk
  • 11.10.Wx
  • 12.38.Mh
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • perturbation theory: higher-order
  • photon: production
  • finite temperature
  • path integral
  • analytic properties