Bremsstrahlung out of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Steffen, Frank Daniel
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URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:26-opus-1233
URL: http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/1999/123/
Universität
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Institut:
Institut für Theoretische Physik I
Fachgebiet:
Physik
DDC-Sachgruppe:
Physik
Dokumentart:
Diplomarbeit, Magisterarbeit
Sprache:
Englisch
Erstellungsjahr:
1999
Publikationsdatum:
22.09.1999
Kurzfassung auf Englisch:
A systematic investigation of hard thermal photon spectra from central ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is presented with emphasis on the effects of
bremsstrahlung processes in the quarkgluon plasma (QGP). Bremsstrahlung photon production in the quarkgluon plasma has recently been considered within
the BraatenPisarski method in thermal QCD, where rates have been found that exhibit the same order in the coupling constants as those describing the lowest
order processes, Compton scattering and q¯qannihilation. The im pact of these bremsstrahlung photon production rates on the thermal photon spectra is
studied systematically within a simple, well understood onefluid hydrodynamical model that describes an only longitudinally expanding fireball (1+1 Bjorken
scaling hydrody namics). A firstorder phase transition is implemented in which QGP (simulated by an ideal massless parton gas of twoflavors) 'hadronizes'
according to the Gibbs criteria and Maxwell construction into a hot hadronic gas (HHG) (simulated by an ideal massless pion gas). It is found that the
bremsstrahlung processes enhance the thermal photon yield from the QGP by about one order of magnitude over the complete considered p range
independent of the choice of the model parameters. This results in an enhancement of the total thermal photon yield which is most significant for parameter sets
that support a highly contributing QGP phase. The influence of each model parameter on the thermal photon spectra is examined carefully and a thorough
understanding of the model is ob tained. Experimental upper limits on direct photon production in fixed target 200 A.GeV S + Au collisions at the CERN SPS
are also considered and used to extract upper limits for the initial temperature of the QGP, where the QGP bremsstrahlung processes are found to make a
difference of about 15 to 20 MeV depending on the temperature at which the phase transition is assumed. In comparison with other theoretical studies, the
impor tance of reaction features not described in the simple model are estimated and interesting elements for a future extension of this systematic investigation
are identified, which will be of great interest in prospect of the upcoming experiments at the BNL RHIC and the CERN LHC.
