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Suppression of dilepton production in hot hadronic matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-25 v1

Abstract

The pion electromagnetic form factor at finite temperature is studied using an effective chiral lagrangian that includes explicitly vector mesons. We find that in the time-like region around the rho meson resonance it decreases with increasing temperature and leads to a suppression of dilepton production from pion-pion annihilation in a hot hadronic matter. Effects on dilepton production in high energy heavy ion collisions and its relevance to the phase transition in a hot hadronic matter are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9412312,
  title  = {Suppression of dilepton production in hot hadronic matter},
  author = {Chungsik Song and Su Houng Lee and Che Ming Ko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9412312},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages (REVTeX), four figures