Induced photon emission from quark jets in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
B. G. Zakharov
L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS, 117334 Moscow, Russia
PACS: 12.20.-m
Abstract
We study the induced photon bremsstrahlung from a fast quark
produced in AA-collisions due to multiple scattering in quark-gluon plasma.
For RHIC and LHC conditions the induced photon spectrum is sharply
peaked at photon energy close to the initial quark energy. In this region
the contribution of the induced radiation to the photon fragmentation
function exceeds the ordinary vacuum radiation.
Contrary to previous analyses [4 - 7]
our results show that at RHIC and LHC energies the final-state
interaction effects in quark-gluon plasma do not suppress the direct
photon production, and even may enhance it at GeV.