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超相对论重离子碰撞中虚光子极化结构

Structure of virtual photon polarization in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Gordon Baym, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Michael Strickland

摘要:

重离子碰撞中的各向异性导致了直接光子和虚光子的偏振,后者通过内部转换为双轻子对来检测。因此,光子偏振的测量探测了碰撞所有阶段的各向异性。为了刻画虚光子的偏振特性,我们在这里导出了各向异性介质中光子偏振算符rho^(mu nu)的一般结构,它是根据四个谱函数,两个横的和一个纵的,和通常一样,加上一个新的谱函数,反映了非对称碰撞中的各向异性;并根据这四个函数导出了双轻子对的局域产生率。

英文摘要:

Anisotropy in heavy-ion collisions leads to polarization of both direct and virtual photons, the latter detected via internal conversion to dileptons pairs. Thus measurement of photon polarization probes the anisotropy at all stages of collisions. In order to characterize the polarization of virtual photons, we derive here the general structure of the photon polarization operator, rho^(mu nu), in an anisotropic medium, in terms of the four spectral functions, two transverse and one longitudinal, as usual, plus a new spectral function that reflects anisotropy in asymmetric collisions; and derive the local production rate of dilepton pairs in terms of these four functions.

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