Excess Dileptons in High-Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
It has been observed recently that while continuum dilepton production and open charm production in high-energy collisions can be described in terms of the superposition of collisions, dilepton yields in S+U collisions are in excess of similar extrapolations. This feature can be explained as arising from the interaction of gluons produced in different soft baryon-baryon collisions, leading to additional open-charm pairs in nucleus-nucleus collisions but not in collisions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9510233,
title = {Excess Dileptons in High-Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions},
author = {Cheuk-Yin Wong and Zhong-Qi Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9510233},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages (REVTeX), includes 2 uuencoded compressed postscript figures