Chiral Dynamics, Deconfinement and Thermal Dileptons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v3
Abstract
We show that in a hot hadron gas, chiral symmetry restoration and deconfinement lead to a strong suppression of dilepton production by pion annihilation in the continuum above the peak. The suppression due to deconfinement persists also for annihilation reactions involving heavier mesons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9408356,
title = {Chiral Dynamics, Deconfinement and Thermal Dileptons},
author = {D. Kharzeev and H. Satz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9408356},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
plain TeX, 7 pages, CERN-TH.7399/94, BI-TP 94/39 (the needed macro is added to this revised file)