Prediction of a Photon Peak in Heavy Ion Collisions [electronic resource].
- Published:
- Berkeley, Calif. : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Nuclear Science Division, 2008. and Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
- Physical Description:
- 4 : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Nuclear Science Division, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
- Access Online:
- www.osti.gov
- Summary:
- We show that if a flavour-less vector meson remains bound after deconfinement, and if its limiting velocity in the quark-gluon plasma is subluminal, then this meson produces a distinct peak in the spectrum of thermal photons emitted by the plasma. We also demonstrate that this effect is a universal property of all strongly coupled, large-Nc plasmas with a gravity dual. For the J/psi the corresponding peak lies between 3 and 5 GeV and could be observed at LHC.
- Note:
- Published through SciTech Connect., 07/01/2008., "lbnl-1905e", Physical Review Letters 102 ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO FT, and Mateos, David; Casalderrey-Solana, Jorge.
- Funding Information:
- DE-AC02-05CH11231
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