QCD calculations of thermal photon and dilepton production
arXiv:hep-ph/0209072 · doi:10.1016/S0375-9474(02)01443-4
Abstract
In this talk, I review new developments of QCD calculations of photon and dilepton production rates in a Quark-Gluon plasma. All the rates are now known up to $O(α_s)$ both for photons and dileptons, thanks to the resummation of multiple scatterings. For dileptons, a direct numerical calculation on the lattice attempted recently will also be discussed.
10 pages, 10 postscript figures, Plenary talk given at Quark-Matter 2002, July 18-24, 2002, Nantes, France