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Squeezing lepton pairs out of broken symmetries

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We discuss two possible signatures of symmetry breaking that can appear in dilepton spectra, as measured in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The first involves scalar-vector meson mixing and is related to the breaking of Lorentz symmetry by a hot medium. The second is related to the breaking of Furry's theorem by a charged quark-gluon plasma. Those signals will be accessible to upcoming measurements to be performed at the GSI, RHIC, and the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0108011,
  title  = {Squeezing lepton pairs out of broken symmetries},
  author = {A. K. Dutt-Mazumder and C. Gale and A. Majumder and O. Teodorescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0108011},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures, talk given at the INPC 2001 (International Conference on Nuclear Physics), 30 July - 3 August 2001, Berkeley, CA