Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 15 (1990) 215-224 North-Holland
PHOTON
INTERACTIONS
WITH
215
QUARK-GLUON
PLASMA
AT FINITE
TEMPERATURE
J. C L E Y M A NS Department
of Physics,
University
of Capetown,
7700 Rondebosch,
Cape,
South Africa
I. DADIC Ruder Bo~kovid
Institute,
YU-41OO1
Zagreb,
Yugoslavia
Photon interactions w i t h q u a r k - g l u o n plasma at finite temperatures and densities are studied to first order in th~ strong coupling constant a . The real gluon s . p r o c e s s e s are c a l c u l a t e d and c l a s s i f i e d according to the crosslng symmetry. The s i n g u l a r i t y structure is classified and it is shown how the singularities cancel w h e n under the c o n d i t i o n of deta i l e d balance. For this, it is necessary to include all the processes that occur in p l a s m a in first order in a . s processes
i. I N T R O D U C T I O N The e x p e r i m e n t a l relativistic servation
programme
ion c o l l i s i o n s
of phase
ical simulations
in numer-
of lattice QCD have mo-
tivated
renewed
field theory
renewed
and the ob-
transitions
quantum
temperature
on ultra-
interest
in relativ i s t i c
(QFT)
and chemical
interest
at finite
potential.
luckily
This
and densities, form simple
which
Here we shall deep
inelastic
quark-gluon duction duction bath
enables
(but tedious)
of t i m e - d e p e n d e n t
one to per-
"hard gluon
scattering
pro-
plasma 6. The pro-
at rest in a heat-
Pire and Schiff 7 and by Altherr A u r a n c h e 8. Using a similar
loops with soft external mo-
In this paper we follow the notation of Ref.
5. To regularize
by Baier,
is organized
2 the crossing
real gluon processes sect.
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This work was
malization
procedure
expressions tribution
are given.
is discussed
In sect.
principle
1990 - Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
by KFA J~lich.
In
renor-
for the v i r t u a l - g l u o n
singularity-free
supported
symmetry of
is established.
cancel all singularities
formalism,
as follows.
3 the finite-temperature
tailed-balance
and
have been treated by sev-
by I. Dadid.
infrared di-
vergences, we introduce a small gluon 2 mass m w h i c h is allowed to go to zero
eral groups: primordial nucleosynthe9-11 12 sis , decay of scalar particles , *Presented
that the
(which could eventually contrib19 ute to the same order in a ) are abs sorbed in masses to this order in as.]
In sect.
of leptons off
frame has been c a l c u l a t e d
is
menta"
The paper
to
plasma 4'5 and dilepton
the p r o c e s s e s
justified by the evidence
in plasma.
limit our interest
of dileptons
treatment of the present calculation
at the end of calculation.
calculations
processes
in q u a r k - g l u o n
tron a n n i h i l a t i o n 14. [The perturbative
coincides w i t h
the d e v e l o p m e n t of the real time formu1-3 lation of QFT at finite temperatures
in ¢3 QFT 13, electron-posi-
and con-
4 the de-
is used to and calculate
final results.
216
J'. Cle3"maas,L Dadi6/ Plioto. iateractio.s
2. THE CROSSING SYMMETRY
(REAL GLUON
PROCESSES) The processes contributing to either deep inelastic scattering
(q2
k
i
lepton production
(q2>O) are shown in
k'
(a)
Fig. 1, where the time direction for dilepton production is opposite to that for deep inelastic scattering. 7
g
~( ~ a )
k
q
g
q - 7= \
--q
q
k
k'
k
q k
k'
(b)
g - ~
_/
7"
(b)
k'
.:
FIGURE 2 Diagrams contributing to deep inelastic scattering and dilepton production.
(d)
7"
q convention
is such that all the energies
are positive when the diagram in Fig. 2a corresponds
to the process
in Fig. la,
and the energy of a particle is consid-
(el
g
(f)
ered to be negative when it changes from the left to the right side in Fig. la or vice versa.
Defining the z axis
as the axis of the photon momentum, can define
(g)
(hi
q
q = z -
q~ll
we
for real gluon processes:
--q
(j)
FIGURE I Processing contributing to first order in u s . The diagrams to be calculated are shown in Fig. 2. It should be noted that only crossed vertices in self-energy contributions could be of type I and 2, the others are always of type I. Our
=
(v,O,O,q z), cos
e
= ~/(1~[
(2.1)
q,)~ (koPo),
(2.2)
z, = cos e, = ~,"q/(1~'1 q,)~ (kop o) , (2.3) s -- (q+k) 2= _ 2 ~ l q z(zC (k'oPo )-d) ,
(2 •4)
t - (q-k')2= 21~'hz(Z'¢(koPo)-d'),
(2.5)
d =
2k v + q o
2 ,
(2.6)
.
(2.7)
21~1%
d' = 2k° - q
2
21~'1% The singularity
structure is deter-
J. Cleymans, L Dadi~/ Photon interactions mined by the properties of the phase-
where z U ,L are
space integral
d3~¢ d~=
d3~: '
......
.,_d3p
(1~'1 +_~(koPo)I~'l ) 2- IE 12-q 2 Z e (WOpO) • 2l'klqz
2U,L =
,
(2,)321ko I (2,,)321ko I (2,,)321Po i × (2~) 4 6(4) (q+k-k'-p).
(2.8)
The functions to be integrated over depend on s, t and the energies appearing in the statistical weights.
Thus,
217
(2.15a1
~l~l~¢(koPo)l~I)2-I~'I 2 2 Z!
-qz¢ (koPo) .
--
21~:'1 qz
u,L-
12.15b}
The quantities ZU,L and, similarly, Z ~ L have a very simple geometrical meaning,
except for two energies and two angles
as the limiting values of angles under
the other variables could be integrated
the condition of conservation of momen-
over with the resultS:
tum i~+~ I - ~
dp="
i 4 dkodPo d £, 8(2~)
d R = 2dzdz' [-y(z,z',cos ~)]
( 2.9 ) -1/2
,
(2.101
or ~i.
o~ i ~' +~1
-I1~1_+1~11 • Now one can t r y
t o see w h a t h a p p e n s
at given energies (ko,Po). First of all, the integration region will be non-zero only if the following inequalities are
where
fulfilled: 7(x,y,z)
(2.11)
= x2+y2+z2-2xyz-i
zU > -i,
and COS
=
~'
~(ko k'o )=[ ko2+k2_ I~12+ qz2
ZL_< i,
(2.16)
z& _> -1,
+2I ~ Iqzz ~(k;po1-21E'I q.z'~ (koPo)]~(k ok',o /(21~11~'1).
~£< 1. Z'
(~.12)
The boundary of the angular integration is determined by the condition
!
J z~
7(z,z',cos a)
< O,
(2.13)
of course, I zl<1, Iz'i<_z. ~he integration region is the region in the
where,
->.Z
ZH
Z~
pm
centre of Fig. 3. The straight lines
I
I I
z~
limiting the boundary are given by ZM = min(l,Zu),
(2.14a)
Zm = max(_l,ZL ),
(2.14b)
z~4 = min(l,z~),
(2.14c) FIGURE
' =
zm
max(-l,z~),
(2.14d)
3
The boundary of the region where Y < O.
218
J. Cleymans, L Dadi4 /Photon interactions
Next set of inequalities determines the boundary between different real gluon
\ T4\ ' \
processes contributing to the total rate
R8
is determined by
-~ "^
/ , ./LS ~ 8
ko ~ O, k'o ~ O,
(2.17)
~
-
"
'\/C2 \\ . . . . .~. . .
/ ET\ /
,' /I
', H8
Po ~ O,
I6
,z- _ _ -v /]
v ~qz,
in agreement with our convention. Finally, the analytic form of the contribution will be classified according to the particular choice of solutions of (2.14a-d). For convenienc~ of the cancellation of collinear singularities, instead of the energy variables (ko,Po) we use more appropriate variables (K,Po), where K = k o + (v - po)/2.
(2.18)
Fcr real photon processes, K is simply the average of two quark energies
/N5 / q-,+--÷-+ q 9 7* /.--.4~'
M8 \
•
04 \ \
FIGURE 5 Crossing symmetry in dilepton production
(K = (ko + k o' ) / 2 ) The classification of contributions, with all the inequalities taken into ac-
In this classification,
count, is represented graphically in
the meaning given in Table i.
the Latin letters
indicate the region, and the numbers label the class of the contribution with
Fig. 4 for deep inelastic scattering and in Fig. 5 for dilepton production.
u7 ,, ,
h7 F2
Z
/
Label
(ZM,Zm,Z~,Z~)
Fig.4
Fig.5
1
(Zu,ZL,z~,z~) A,I,T,W
A,V
2
(Zu,ZL,I,-I)
D,F,P,Q
C,U
3
(Zu,-l,z~,-l)
B,G,O,J,S,Z
G
4
(Zu,-I,I,z ~)
C,R
B,O,T
5
(I,ZL,Z~,-I)
K,V
F,L,N
6
(I,ZL,I,z ~)
M,E
D,I,S
7 8
(l,-l,z~,z L') (i,-i,i,-I)
H,L,N,U
E,K HI~,R
TABLE 1 Classes of contributions related by crossing symmetry In Fig. 5, region G3 is absent because of qz
For qz>V/2, Fig. 5 is slightregion H3 disappears and a
region classified as G3 appears
219
J. Cleymans, !o Dadi~ / Photon interactions in the form of a triangle
turned upsideMZ = _812(q2+m2)2 l___+stt--s+ _t _ 2(q2+m 2)
down.
s
It is evident that the crossing metry is valid only w i t h i n belonging elastic
tion together!}. antisymmetry
2 (q2+m2)
the regions
to the same class
scattering
sym-
(deep in-
and dilepton produc-
In addition,
2q2[ ~11 - m I (k'-q)
t
s
12
12 ].
+ I ~11 (k+q)
(2.2!)
there is
related to the identity of
This expression
is identical to the cor-
quarks which joins pairs of classes 2
responding one at zero temperature ex-
and 7, 4 and 5.
cept for the ~11 terms containing the
To discuss the singularities, observe
let us
that
%
m
62 terms multiplied by the
statistical
factors at finite temperature
and chemical potential
2 Po+ko s (z U)
ill-defined
Po
(2.19)
'
For definiteness, the angular
t(z~) %. m 2 P°-k° Po From
•
(2.201
(2.201
and Table 1
we can directly read the collinear-sinstructure:
taining either
singularity
integrals over the most sin-
gular term 1/(st). tions : A = 2K + Po + v,
(2.22a)
a = 2K + Po - u ,
(2.22b)
the integrals con-
s
or
t
in the denomi-
nator will be singular whenever respectively,
we shall present
First, we introduce a few abbrevia-
(2.19) and
gularity
(Ref. 5).
z~ is chosen.
appears
z U or,
Thus,
in classes
4, while the t singularity
the s
Po + ~'
(2.22c)
b = 2K - Po - u'
(2.22d)
B
=
2K
-
l, 2, 3,
appears
classes i, 3, 5, 7. Furthermore, the ill-defined
in
62 ex-
|
C = 2K + PO + qze(kokoPo }'
(2.22e)
c = 2K + P o -
(2.22f)
qze(kokoPo }'
D = 2K - Po + qze(kokoPo)'
(2.22g)
' )" d = 2K - Po - qz e( k okoPo
(2.22h)
pressions will appear whenever either S(ZM)S(Zm)
i.e.
03 and P2 in Fig.
in regions G3, F2, 4
5, or t(z~)t(z~)
and U2, T4 in Fig. i.e.
H7, 03 and N7 in Fig. in Fig.
in regions G3,
4 and K7 and L5
5.
for eight regions corresponding different classes.
Thus,
to eight
in the limit of
small m 2 we obtain
Infrared divergences
appear when
Po÷O. Again, we have the s and t divergence.
It is enough to write down the integrals
e (koko)I
(i/(st) = e (kok o) I i/(st)d~
In comparison with the zero-tem-
perature
case,
the divergence
is strong-
er by one power of p~i owing to the Bose distribution After
summation over virtual photon
polarizations, lated is
of gluons.
the trace to be calcu-
:
-~
in IA 41,
lqzpoq21
(2.23)
where A 4 takes the value~ given in Table 2 (see Refs.
4-6 for details}:
.I. Cleymans, I. Dadi~/ Photon interactions
220
Value of A 4
TABLE 2
Class
16 p4q4/(m4AaBb)
tions, while
it contributes
1
4 po2 q 2 B/(m2ADd)
2
16 po4q4/(m4AbcD)
3
4 po2q 2 c/(m2Aad)
of the vertices
could also be of type 2.
The terms with one delta function are as B, F, F', depending on !
5
this delta function refers to
the boson
6
4 po2q2a/(m2bCc)
line, the fermion line or the
fermion primed line. The self-energy will generally be a
7
2x2 matrix, cDI
(Cd)
only to the ill-defined In the latter case, one
whether aB/(Cd)
corrections
62 expressions.
indicated
4
4 po2q2D/(m2BbC)
for self-energy
8
diagonal
the real part of it being
to the order calculated,
and
we may follow the procedure of Donoghue, Holstein
and Robinett (see Refs.
The procedure The ill-defined
62 expressions
obey this crossing-symmetry
do not
rule.
To obtain the final result, we have to multiply the expression
(2.23) by
a statistical
factor and integrate over
two energies.
The statistical
factor
12, 15).
is based on the T=O re-
normalization as an intermediate step. 11 For this, E is broken into the zerotemperature
and finite-temperature
parts: 11 + E 11 = E o
11
E8
(3.1)
•
for y + q ÷ q'+g is The zero-temperature nF(Xko ) (l-nF(Xko})
(2.24)
(i+nB([P°l) '
wave-function where Xko = I k o ~ -
part is decom-
posed into the contribution
renormalization
and the mass renormalization ~¢(k O)
12.25)
- mo
_
to the constant as
Re Zo11 _~ z-l(M_mo_6mo} o '
(3 "2)
and similarly for the other processes where the
with a real gluon.
zol- terms cancel out the
terms in 6.3, while the 6 m o terms can3. VIRTUAL-GLUON
cel with the mass counter terms. The
CORRECTIONS
To this order, virtual-gluon butions correspond
contri-
to the interference
term between the lowest-order
diagram
(Mo) and the sum of vertex and selfenergy corrections
finite-temperature
part is decomposed
as
Esll(k) = B(k)+C(k) (){-mph(l~l))+l~(k) (3.3)
(M1}, as shown in
Fig. 2b. The terms with zero and two
where B, C and D are some known func-
delta functions appearing on internal
tions and mph(k)
lines are pure imaginary and therefore
finite temperature.
do not contribute
tails, we merely state the results:
to this order.
term witn three delta functions nematically
forbidden
The is ki-
in vertex correc-
m ph 2 (I~1)
=
+
is the fermion mass at Omitting
the de-
M ÷2MR
2k.O( o, I 1),
(3.4)
3. Cleymaas, I. Dsdi6 / Photon interactions
where M R is the renormalized mass at zero temperature, and T o is the energy satisfying the mass-shell condition -2 ko -
l£12 2k-D
221
: 2 Re M o M o [ Z-B 1 / 2 ( k ) + z ~-I / 2 ( k ' ) - 2 ] , - (3.9) .
-
-
Eo, l
2MRB(Eo, l)
= o.
(3.S)
As shown by Weldon 16, mph will be different from zero even in the case when MR=O. The renormalization constant is Z-l(k) = Z: IZ6 l(k) and Z -1 6 (k) = [ 1-C (k)
DO ( k )
+
+
~oo
)
¢'~'[MRB (k) +MRB (k') +k' * D (k) +k- D (k,) t
- 2¢ "k' ¢'Re D(k)-2¢ *k ¢*Re D(k')}. (3.10) Adding all these corrections, one obtains for the sum over polarizations:
k o ~) ~k---~[MRB (k) +k-D (k) ]
Do(k) + ko ]mass " shell
(3.6)
The counter terms consist of scalar parts and parts including 7 matrices:
2 Re MoM 1 vertex+self-enerw1+corr. 2 = q $ d4p 1 , (21)3 k--~o{-2q4+2q2[lp-k) + (p-k') 2-2p2]+2[p2 (p-k) 2+p2 (p-k') 2 -(p-k) 2(p'-k)2-p2(k'-p)
£11-c "t = Re ( ZB (k)-I) ( M - M R- Z11 ( k ) ) + i Im
DO ( k ' )
MFT S : R e { MoMo( ko
I)
Z11,
(3.7)
where the real parts refer to scalar quantities and coefficients of ¥ matrices. The imaginary parts 17'18 give the
(-
q2 _ koV 2q: 2 ) qz
ko ~..+q 2 [ ko -1)(k'-p)2 _p2(k_p) 2(_ q 2 + --~U 2q: qz PO -1) (k-p) 2+p2 ] - ~ (ko+k O ) + (k-'~ qz
contribution containing the product of 6 functions (MR=O case only):
x (ko+ko-2Po)p2}A
Re(i~ 11 Im ~11 + i~12 Im Z21)
where by Awe have denoted the expression = AB + aF + AF' '
= ~6 (k 2) [(1-2nF(x k) ) Im Z11 6(Xk0+,)/2
- 2n F(x k)¢(k O)e
Im
,
£21],
(3.8)
the other 6 being in the phase-space integration. There are further corrections to the lowest-order diagram coming from renormalization of the fermion wave function (WFR) and use of the finitetemperature spinors (FTS}:
1+2n B ([PoJ)
AB =
aF
AF'
2 2 6(p2-m2)' (k-p) (k'-p}
(3.11)
(3.12)
(3.13a)
=
l-2nF (Xko-Po) 2 6 ((k-P)), (k' -p) 2 (p2_m2)
(3-13b)
=
l-2nF (Xk~-P0) 2 6 ((k'-p)), (k-p)2 (p2_m2)
(3-13c)
In the integrals related to the B con-
J. CJeyma,s, L DadJ6 / Photon interactions
222
tribution we shall refer to s B, t B,
and the factors
where
tions o f
sB
included
in the defini-
AB, AF, A F , , c o r r e s p o n d i n g l y ,
2 =
(k'
-
p)
,
t B = (k - p)2.
13.14)
4. C A N C E L L A T I O N
OF SINGULARITIES
Now we have to discuss Similarly,
singularities
we shall refer to s F, for
the F' contribution contribution,
separately.
UV infinities
and t F for the F
are identical
those at zero temperature
where
od is the same. p2
m2
[SF,
-
for F'
=
.
tF
(3.15)
for F
methods sect.
is performed
analogous
using
2, but the results
in
separate
zero and non-zero
= lqzpoq21~ in A B,
~3.16)
(3.17)
counter
IF(
AF
W
2) tFlk'-p) =
2
=
2
(3.19)
4q Pob/(m2aDd)
W 1 I F, ( 2 ) = lqzpoq21 c (po B) in AF, , SF, (k-p) (3.20)
A F, = 4q2p2B/(m2ADd).
(3.21)
the result is
that appear
singularities
stead,
(i.e., those
as m2÷O at finite po } are to cancel,
summation
the straight
of real- and virtual-
gluon contributions (3.18)
will not work.
contributions
(3.16)-(3.21)
define
the
in the regions which,
ance identities
(Refs.
4-8}:
nB(x-y)[ nF(x)-nF(Y)] +nF(X)[l-nF(Y)] = O, x >y>O,
(4. i)
n B (x-y)[ n F (x) +n_ (-y)-l] +n F (x} n_ (-y)= O, F F
The c a n c e l l a t i o n terms:
the
gluon processes,
gluon processes,
gluon boson
gion of classes 4 and 5. Outside tribution obtained (3.11).
with the re-
1, 2, 3 and 4 in Figs. this region the con-
is zero.
Similar
results
for the other contributions The contribution
by the statistical
in
is m u l t i p l i e d
factor
nF(x k )[i - nF(x k +~)] o o
There
primed
three
to real
and the third
either
fermion or
contribution.
tions that cancel to the scheme ty Po
includes
are four groups of contribuseparately
in Fig.
to s -1 singularity (3.22)
(4.2)
the second to virtual-
contribution
to the virtual-gluon fermion
are
scheme
first corresponds
when put on the same plot with real coincide
In-
we have to use the detailed-bal-
x>O>y. Expressions
and in-
UV finite.
forward
¢(po b) in A F,
lqzpoq21
term, wave and finite-
over the angles,
more c o m p l i c a t e d i
temperature
spinor contributions
Collinear = 16 p4q4/(m4AaBb),
we do not
but when we add the ver-
renormalization
temperature tegrate
IB(s~~)
procedure:
self-energy,
function
are simpler:
and the meth-
different
tex,
to those applied
with
Here we perform a
slightly
contributions, The integration
each type of
6 and correspond
Po>O,
t -I singularity
singula-"ity Po
according
s -1 singulariPo>O and t -I
Together
with the
J. Cleyman$, L Dadi~/ Photon interactions
223
given in Table 3.
po~ 0
TABLE 3 Value of A4
Class
1
1
aB d--6
2
aB c--6
3
J J
c
po,0
D C
3 PARTICLE
4 PARTICLE
4
F
8
FIGURE 6 Scheme of cancellations of various contributions to collinear singularities
--
5
aB c-5
6
aB c-~
7
cD d--C
8
in m 2 terms, additional kinematical factors could be cancelled.
For example,
one can introduce 422 Po q
classes 1,2,3,4
m2AB =
As
(4.3)
1
otherwise
A B = I,
(4.6a)
_ b2 AF = d-D '
(4.6b)
B2 AF' = d-~ '
(4.6c)
It is evident that all collinear divergences are explicitly cancelled.
In ad-
dition, the limit Po+O is safe. SimilarI 4p~q2 m2ab
classes 1,3,5,7
At =
ly, the cancellation is performed for (4.4)
1
the other contributions to the process. Finally, the ill-defined 62 expres-
otherwise
sions will be cancelled by the prescripto obtain the singularity-free contribu-
tion that E in the propagators should be
tions
kept finite until the end of calculation. After summing carefully the real-
A4 = A4/(AsAt)'
(4.5a)
A4 = AB/(AsAt)'
(4.5b)
AF = AF/At '
(4.5c)
AF' = AF'/As "
(4.5d)
gluon contribution and the self-energy contribution, where in one of the vertices one has to take both field i and
The results of these cancellations are
field 2, one can perform angular inte-i gration; then the c contribution cancels. The final result is free from any
J. Cleymans, I. Dadi6 / Photon interactions
224
ambiguity and could be safely integrated over the plane
(K,Po).
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