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The $\rho$ meson in hot hadron matter and low mass dilepton spectra

Nuclear Theory 2015-05-27 v1

Abstract

The structure of the one loop self-energy graphs of the ρ\rho meson is analyzed in the real time formulation of thermal field theory. The modified spectral function of the ρ\rho meson in hot hadronic matter leads to a large enhancement of lepton pair production below the bare peak of the ρ\rho. It has been shown that the effective temperature extracted from the inverse slope of the transverse momentum distributions for various invariant mass (MM) windows of the pair can be used as an efficient tool to characterize different phases of the evolving matter.

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@article{arxiv.1101.5946,
  title  = {The $\rho$ meson in hot hadron matter and low mass dilepton spectra},
  author = {Sabyasachi Ghosh and Sourav Sarkar and Jan-e Alam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.5946},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Presented at the 6th International Conference on the Physics and Astrophysics of Quark Gluon Plasma, ICPAQGP2010, Dec. 6-10, Goa, India