Thermal photons in QGP and non-ideal effects

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2010)106zbMATH Open1294.76291arXiv1011.1969MaRDI QIDQ406770FDOQ406770

Authors: Jitesh R. Bhatt, Hiranmaya Mishra, V. Sreekanth 

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the thermal photon production-rates using one dimensional boost-invariant second order relativistic hydrodynamics to find proper time evolution of the energy density and the temperature. The effect of bulk-viscosity and non-ideal equation of state are taken into account in a manner consistent with recent lattice QCD estimates. It is shown that the extit{non-ideal} gas equation of state i.e $epsilon-3,P,eq0$ behaviour of the expanding plasma, which is important near the phase-transition point, can significantly slow down the hydrodynamic expansion and thereby increase the photon production-rates. Inclusion of the bulk viscosity may also have similar effect on the hydrodynamic evolution. However the effect of bulk viscosity is shown to be significantly lower than the extit{non-ideal} gas equation of state. We also analyze the interesting phenomenon of bulk viscosity induced cavitation making the hydrodynamical description invalid. We include the viscous corrections to the distribution functions while calculating the photon spectra. It is shown that ignoring the cavitation phenomenon can lead to erroneous estimation of the photon flux.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1969

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zbMATH Keywords

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Viscous-inviscid interaction for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N17)

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• Finite-Temperature Field Theory
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