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Thermal Dimuon Yields at NA60

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Dilepton emission rates from a hadronic gas at finite temperature and baryon density are completely constrained by broken chiral symmetry in a density expansion. The rates can be expressed in terms of vacuum correlations which are measured in e+ee^+e^- annihilation, τ\tau decays and photo-reactions on nucleons and nuclei. In this paper, the theoretical results are summarized and the total dimuon yield is calculated by integrating the dimuon rates over the space-time history of a fireball based on hydrodynamic calculations with CERN SPS conditions. The resulting dimuon yield is in good agreement with the recent measurements reported by NA60.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0604071,
  title  = {Thermal Dimuon Yields at NA60},
  author = {K. Dusling and D. Teaney and I. Zahed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0604071},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages, 8 figures

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