This thesis re-examines soft dilepton emission from a weakly coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma. It shows that Braaten, Pisarski, and Yuan's result, that the dilepton rate rises as 1/q40 (and the spectral weight scales as 1/q0) at small energy q0 ≪ gT is correct, but that the coefficient they found for this behavior is not correct, because their analysis was incomplete. At still smaller scales, the behavior moderates to ∝ 1/q20 for q0 ≲ g4T, consistent with a finite electrical conductivity. An evaluation of the spectral weight in the q0 ~ g4 T region by kinetic theory techniques is carried out. The spectral weight is then shown to satisfy a sum rule, which makes the determination of electrical conductivity from the Euclidean correlation function very challenging.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.101171 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Robert, Jean-Marie Paul. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | © Jean-Marie Paul Robert, 2006 |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002600027, proquestno: AAIMR32780, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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