Measuring quark-gluon-plasma thermalization time with dileptons

作者:Martinez Mauricio*; Strickland Michael
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2008, 100(10): 102301.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.102301

摘要

We calculate the medium dilepton yield from a quark-gluon plasma which has a time-dependent local momentum-space anisotropy. A phenomenological model for the hard momentum scale, p(hard)(tau), and plasma anisotropy parameter, xi(tau), is constructed which interpolates between longitudinal free streaming at early times (tau<<tau(iso)) and ideal hydrodynamic at late times (tau>>tau(iso)). We show that high-energy dilepton production is sensitive to the plasma isotropization time, tau(iso), and can therefore be used to experimentally determine the time of onset for hydrodynamic expansion of a quark-gluon plasma and the magnitude of expected early-time momentum-space anisotropies.

  • 出版日期2008-3-14