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What to learn from dilepton transverse momentum spectra in heavy-ion collisions?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Recently the NA60 collaboration has presented high precision measurements of dimuon spectra double differential in invariant mass MM and transverse pair momentum pTp_T in In-In collisions at 158AGeV158 {\rm AGeV}. While the MM-dependence is important for an understanding of in-medium changes of light vector mesons and is pTp_T integrated insensitive to collective expansion, the pTp_T-dependence arises from an interplay between emission temperature and collective transverse flow. This fact can be exploited to derive constraints on the evolution model and in particular on the contributions of different phases of the evolution to dimuon radiation into a given MM window. We present arguments that a thermalized evolution phase with T>170MeVT > 170 {\rm MeV} leaves its imprint on the spectra.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0702012,
  title  = {What to learn from dilepton transverse momentum spectra in heavy-ion collisions?},
  author = {Jorg Ruppert and Thorsten Renk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0702012},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Contributed to 19th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: Quark Matter 2006 (QM 2006), Shanghai, China, 14- 20 Nov 2006