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Van Hove Singularities in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

General arguments as well as different approximations for the in-medium quark propagator in a quark-gluon plasma lead to quark dispersion relations that exhibit a minimum in one branch (plasmino). This minimum causes Van Hove singularities in the dilepton production rate and mesonic correlators, whi...

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Autor principal: Thoma, Markus H.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0920-5632(00)01031-8
http://cds.cern.ch/record/453592
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Sumario:General arguments as well as different approximations for the in-medium quark propagator in a quark-gluon plasma lead to quark dispersion relations that exhibit a minimum in one branch (plasmino). This minimum causes Van Hove singularities in the dilepton production rate and mesonic correlators, which might have observable consequences.