Published November 2007
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Journal article
Bright branes for strongly coupled plasmas
Creators
- 1. Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530 (United States)
- 2. Instituto de FI sica, UNAM, Apdo. Postal. 20-364, 01000 D.F. (Mexico)
Description
We use holographic techniques to study photon production in a class of finite temperature, strongly coupled, large-Nc SU(Nc) quark-gluon plasmas with Nf<< Nc quark flavours. Our results are valid to leading order in the electromagnetic coupling constant but non-perturbatively in the SU(Nc) interactions. The spectral function of electromagnetic currents and other related observables exhibit an interesting structure as a function of the photon frequency and the quark mass. We discuss possible implications for heavy ion collision experiments
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Volume
- 11
- Journal Issue
- 2007
- Journal Page Range
- p. 025
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39044491
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGEBRAIC CURRENTS; BASIC INTERACTIONS; BRANES; COUPLING CONSTANTS; FLAVOR MODEL; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; HOLOGRAPHY; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARK MATTER; QUARKS; REST MASS; SPECTRAL FUNCTIONS; SU GROUPS
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; COMPOSITE MODELS; CURRENTS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INTERACTIONS; LIE GROUPS; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARK MODEL; SYMMETRY GROUPS