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High energy thermal photons from chirally imbalanced QGP

Sourav Duari1,3,*, Nilanjan Chaudhuri1,†, Pradip Roy2,3,‡, and Sourav Sarkar1,3,§

  • *Contact author: s.duari@vecc.gov.in, sduari.vecc@gmail.com
  • †Contact author: n.chaudhri@vecc.gov.in, nilanjan.vecc@gmail.com
  • ‡Contact author: pradipk.roy@saha.ac.in
  • §Contact author: sourav.vecc@gmail.com
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Phys. Rev. D 114, 054047 – Published 23 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/d2kh-5d61

Abstract

We compute the thermal photon production rate from a chirally asymmetric quark gluon plasma. We estimate the hard part from scattering of chiral quarks and demonstrate the cutoff independence of the total thermal photon emission rate. This is achieved by combining the hard with the soft contribution evaluated in our previous work [N. Chaudhuri et al., Phys. Rev. D 112, 094046 (2025)] using the Braaten-Pisarski method of hard thermal loop perturbation theory. It is observed that the presence of chiral imbalance leads to an overall enhancement in the emission rate of thermal photons.

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Phys. Rev. D 114, 054047– Published 23 September, 2026
  • Received 8 June 2026
  • Accepted 27 August 2026
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