Photon and dilepton production in supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Huot, Simon C ^a   Kovtun, Pavel ^b   Moore, Guy D ^a   Starinets, Andrei ^c   Yaffe, Laurence G ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondence; Supersymmetric gauge theory; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846163778     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/015     Document Type: Article

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