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Dilepton Enhancement by Thermal Pion Annihilation in the CERES Experiment

Nuclear Theory 2016-09-08 v1

Abstract

We compare the recent CERES data on dielectron production in 200 GeV/u S+Au collisions with the theoretical predictions due to pion annihilation in a thermal hadronization and a string fragmentation scenario. Both models yield similar results for the dilepton mass spectrum. A satisfactory description of the experimental spectrum requires an in-medium reduction of the rho-mass and a freeze-out temperature of about 150 MeV in the thermal model. We emphasize and discuss the influence of experimental acceptance and resolution corrections.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9607055,
  title  = {Dilepton Enhancement by Thermal Pion Annihilation in the CERES Experiment},
  author = {H. -J. Schulze and D. Blaschke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9607055},
  year   = {2016}
}

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9 pages, RevTex, 4 eps figures, To appear in Phys. Lett. B