Photon and dilepton emission rates from high density quark matter

Details Photon and dilepton emission rates from high density quark matter Photon and dilepton emission rates from high density quark matter

2001-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0112308v2

Phys.Rev. C65 (2002) 055205

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

18 pages, 12 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.65.055205

We compute the rates of real and virtual photon (dilepton) emission from dense QCD matter in the color-flavor locked (CFL) phase, focusing on results at moderate densities (3-5 times the nuclear saturation density) and temperatures $T\simeq80$ MeV. We pursue two approaches to evaluate the electromagnetic (e.m.) response of the CFL ground state: (i) a direct evaluation of the photon self energy using quark particle/-hole degrees of freedom, and (ii) a Hidden Local Symmetry (HLS) framework based on generalized mesonic excitations where the $\rho$ meson is introduced as a gauge boson of a local SU(3) color-flavor group. The $\rho$ coupling to generalized two-pion states induces a finite width and allows to address the issue of vector meson dominance (VMD) in the CFL phase. We compare the calculated emissivities (dilepton rates) to those arising from standard hadronic approaches including in-medium effects. For rather large superconducting gaps (several tens of MeV at moderate densities), as suggested by both perturbative and nonperturbative estimates, the dilepton rates from CFL quark matter turn out to be very similar to those obtained in hadronic many-body calculations, especially for invariant masses above $M\simeq0.3$ GeV. A similar observation holds for (real) photon production.

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