Abstract
The photon production due to conversion of two gluons into a photon, \(gg\rightarrow \gamma \), in the presence of the background gauge fields is studied within the specific mean-field approach to QCD vacuum. In this approach, mean field in the confinement phase is represented by the statistical ensemble of almost everywhere homogeneous abelian (anti-)self-dual gluon configurations, while the deconfined phase can be characterized by the purely chromomagnetic fields. The probability of gluon conversion of two gluons into a photon vanishes in the confinement phase due to the randomness of the background field configurations. The anisotropic strong electromagnetic field, generated in the collision of relativistic heavy ions, serves as a catalyst for deconfinement with the appearance of an anisotropic purely chromomagnetic mean field. Respectively, deconfined phase is characterized by nonzero probability of the conversion of two gluons into a photon with strongly anisotropic angular distribution.
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Appendix
The amplitude in Eq. (11) consists of 32 terms. Below an explicit form of the tensor structures and corresponding form factors are listed.
Set of tensors \(\mathcal {F}^{l}_{\mu \nu \rho }(p,k)\) includes
where \(\delta ^{||}_{\alpha \beta }=\textrm{diag}(0,0,1,1)\) - Kronecker symbol in the longitudinal space. Form factors \(F^l(p,k)\) have the following representation
where \(\mathcal {P}^l(s_1,s_2,s_3)\) - are the rational functions
where the following notations is used
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Nedelko, S., Nikolskii, A. Photons production in heavy-ion collisions as a signal of deconfinement phase. Eur. Phys. J. A 59, 70 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-00986-w
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