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Electromagnetic Emission Rates and Spectral Sum Rules

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

The electromagnetic emission rates at SPS energies satisfy spectral constraints in leading order in the pion and nucleon densities. These constraints follow from the strictures of broken chiral symmetry. We saturate these constraints using available data, leading to model independent emission rates from a hadronic gas. With a simple fire-ball scenario, only large nucleon densities may account for the present CERES data.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9802256,
  title  = {Electromagnetic Emission Rates and Spectral Sum Rules},
  author = {James Steele and Hidenaga Yamagishi and Ismail Zahed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9802256},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages (Latex), 2 embedded ps figures, espcrc1 style, talk given at Quark Matter 97, December 97, Tsukuba, Japan

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