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Medium effect on photon production in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions

Chungsik Song, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1998 - 
- Vol. 58, Iss: 3, pp 1689-1697
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In this article, the effect of in-medium vector and axial-vector meson masses on photon production was studied, and it was shown that the thermal production rate of photons increases with reduced masses, and is enhanced by an order of magnitude at T=160thinspMeV with m{sub {rho}}=300thins pMeV.
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The effect of in-medium vector and axial-vector meson masses on photon production is studied. We assume that the effective mass of a vector meson in hot nuclear matter decreases according to a universal scaling law, while that of an axial-vector meson is given by Weinberg{close_quote}s mass formula. We find that the thermal production rate of photons increases with reduced masses, and is enhanced by an order of magnitude at T=160thinspMeV with m{sub {rho}}=300thinspMeV. Assuming a hydrodynamic evolution, we estimate the effect of the reduced masses on photon production in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The result is compared to experimental data from the WA80/WA98 Collaboration. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}

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