Seeing the QCD phase transition with phi mesons
Nuclear Theory
2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
A double phi peak structure in the dilepton invariant mass spectrum from ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is proposed as a signal for the phase transition from the quark-gluon plasma to the hadronic matter. The low mass phi peak results from the decay of phi mesons with reduced in-medium mass during the transition. Furthermore, the measurement of the transverse momentum distribution of these low mass phi mesons offers a viable means for determining the temperature of the phase transition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9401016,
title = {Seeing the QCD phase transition with phi mesons},
author = {M. Asakawa and C. M. Ko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9401016},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures available upon request, Latex