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Dilepton Production from Rho-Mesons in a Quark-Gluon Plasma

Nuclear Theory 2015-06-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Assuming that rho-mesons exist in a quark-gluon plasma close to the QCD phase transition, we calculate the dilepton production rate from quark-antiquark annihilation via a rho-meson state using Vector Meson Dominance. The result is compared to the rates from direct quark-antiquark annihilation and from pion annihilation. Furthermore we discuss the suppression of low mass dileptons if the quarks assume an effective mass in the quark-gluon plasma.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9905016,
  title  = {Dilepton Production from Rho-Mesons in a Quark-Gluon Plasma},
  author = {Markus H. Thoma and Stefan Leupold and Ulrich Mosel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9905016},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, REVTEX, 5 PostScript figures