Production of Prompt Photons: Holographic Duality and Thermalization

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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.