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We study dilepton production from a quark-gluon plasma of given energy density at finite quark chemical potential μ and find that the dilepton production rate is a strongly decreasing function of μ. Therefore, the signal to background ratio of dileptons from a plasma created in a heavy-ion collision may decrease significantly.
Shock discontinuities around the confinement-deconfinement transition in baryon-rich dense matter
(1989)
We study a relativistic fluid with longitudinal boost invariance in a quantum-statistical framework as an example of a solvable nonequilibrium problem. For the free quantum field, we calculate the exact form of the expectation values of the stress-energy tensor and the entropy current. For the stress-energy tensor, we find that a finite value can be obtained only by subtracting the vacuum of the density operator at some fixed proper time τ0. As a consequence, the stress-energy tensor acquires nontrivial quantum corrections to the classical free-streaming form.