1211.2199 (Leonardo Patino et al.)

Thermal photon production in a strongly coupled anisotropic plasma    [PDF]

Leonardo Patino, Diego Trancanelli

Photons produced in heavy ion collisions escape virtually unperturbed from the surrounding medium, thus representing an excellent probe of the conditions at the emission point. Using the gauge/gravity duality, we calculate the rate of photon production in an anisotropic, strongly coupled N=4 plasma with Nf<View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2199