Production of Prompt Photons: Holographic Duality and Thermalization

Abstract

We study the production of prompt photons in strongly coupled out-of-equilibrium Super Yang-Mills plasma using the AdS/CFT correspondence. Our goal is to determine the photon emission spectrum at different stages of a thermalization process, which is modeled via the gravitational collapse of a thin spherical shell in AdS${}_5$ space. Particular emphasis is placed on the limit of large frequencies, which we are able to treat analytically.

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, v3: Minor mistake corrected in the calculations, figures and discussion adapted accordingly