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Low-Mass $e^+e^-$ Pairs from in-Medium $\rho$ Meson Propagation

Nuclear Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Based on a realistic model for the rho meson in free space we investigate it's medium modifications in a hot hadron gas generated by hadronic rescattering processes, i.e. renormalization of intermediate two-pion states as well as direct rho meson scattering off hadrons. Within the vector dominance model the resulting in-medium rho spectral function is applied to calculate e+ee^+e^- spectra as recently measured in heavy-ion collisions at CERN-SpS energies in the CERES experiment.

Cite

@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9701064,
  title  = {Low-Mass $e^+e^-$ Pairs from in-Medium $\rho$ Meson Propagation},
  author = {R. Rapp and G. Chanfray and J. Wambach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9701064},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

9 pages LaTeX, postscript figures included using epsf.sty, epsfig.sty; Proc. of the Int. Workshop XXV, Hirschegg '97, on 'QCD Phase Transitions'

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