Photons as a Signal of Deconfinement in Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions

The photon production by conversion of gluons <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>g</mi><mi>g</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>γ</mi></mrow></seman...

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Main Authors: Sergei Nedelko, Aleksei Nikolskii
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-05-01
Series:Physics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8174/5/2/39
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Summary:The photon production by conversion of gluons <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>g</mi><mi>g</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>γ</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> via quark loop in the framework of the mean-field approach to the QCD (quantunm chromodynamics) vacuum is studied here. According to the domain model of QCD vacuum, the confinement phase is dominated by Abelian (anti-)self-dual gluon fields, while the deconfinement phase is characterized by a strong chromomagnetic field. In the confinement phase, photon production is impossible due to the random spacial orientation of the statistical ensemble of vacuum fields. However, the conditions of Furry theorem are not satisfied in the deconfinement phase, the conversion of gluons is nonzero and, in addition, photon distribution has a strong angular anisotropy. Thus, the photon production in the discussed process acts as one of the important features of transition in quark-gluon plasma to the deconfinement phase.
ISSN:2624-8174