Dileptons, Charm and Bottom in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
The relation of the thermal dilepton signal from deconfined matter, resulting in central ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies, to the background yields from the Drell-Yan process and correlated semileptonic decays of open charm and bottom mesons is analyzed. We demonstrate that very stringent kinematical cuts offer a chance to identify the thermal signal in the continuum region.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9811401,
title = {Dileptons, Charm and Bottom in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions},
author = {K. Gallmeister and B. Kaempfer and O. P. Pavlenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9811401},
year = {2008}
}
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8 LaTeX pages including eps figures, contribution to the Erice School on Nuclear Physics 1998 (to be published in "Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics")