Photon Emission from Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC and LHC

Poonam Jain, Yogesh Kumar

Department of Physics, Sri Aurobindo College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.

DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2014.58080                

Abstract

We work on photon production through annihilation and Compton, and annihilation with scattering (AWS) processes through a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in high energy nuclear collision incorporating the parametrization factors in strong coupling value and thermal dependent quark mass obtained through a coupling value. We find that photon yield increases with the increasing of the temperature and dominated by early times. We also compare the influence of coupling value on the spectrum of thermal photons. The production rate of photons is observed in the range of low and intermediate transverse momentum. The results are compared with other work.

Keywords

Direct Photon, Quark-Gluon Plasma

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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