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 annihilation, 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
9 pages, 8 figures