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Rapidity Distributions of Dileptons from a Hadronizing Quark-Gluon Plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-22 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

It has been predicted that dilepton production may be used as a quark-gluon plasma probe. We calculate the rapidity distributions of thermal dileptons produced by an evolving quark-gluon plasma assuming a longitudinal scaling expansion with initial conditions locally determined from the hadronic rapidity density. These distributions are compared with Drell-Yan production and semileptonic charm decays at invariant mass M=2M = 2, 4, and 6 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9309213,
  title  = {Rapidity Distributions of Dileptons from a Hadronizing Quark-Gluon Plasma},
  author = {R. Vogt and B. V. Jacak and P. L. McGaughey and P. V. Ruuskanen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9309213},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 pages (standard LaTeX), 6 figures (available as topdraw files or printed versions upon request), GSI-93-65