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We calculate the transverse momentum and invariant mass dependence of elliptic flow of thermal dileptons for Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The system is described using hydrodynamics, with the assumption of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rupa Chatterjee , Dinesh K. Srivastava , Ulrich W. Heinz , Charles Gale

We study dilepton production in proton-proton, Cu+Cu as well as in Au+Au collisions at the center-of-mass energy 200 GeV per participating nucleon pair within an extended statistical hadronization model. In extension to earlier studies we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 J. Manninen , E. L. Bratkovskaya , O. Linnyk , W. Cassing

Experimental evidence from RHIC indicates that matter having an energy density far in excess of the value required for the creation of a deconfined phase is produced in ultrarelativistic Au+Au collisions at a center of mass energy of 200…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-08-04 John Lajoie

We extend our recent analysis of the dilepton and photon emission rates to the case of finite temperature and baryon density, within the context of a density expansion. To leading order, the effects of the baryon density are assessed using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 James V. Steele , Hidenaga Yamagishi , Ismail Zahed

The dilepton emission in heavy-ion reactions at low beam energies is examined within a hadronic transport approach. In this article the production of electron-positron pairs from a new approach named SMASH (Simulating Many Accelerated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Jan Staudenmaier , Janus Weil , Vinzent Steinberg , Stephan Endres , Hannah Petersen

We calculate electromagnetic production from highly excited hadronic matter created in heavy ion collisions. The rates include the usual lowest order processes in quark-gluon plasma plus the usual reactions in the hadronic phase, related…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. M. Hung , E. V. Shuryak

Using a Hagedorn resonance gas picture and quark-hadron duality we estimate the dilepton emission rate in the vicinity of the QCD deconfinement phase transition. The result is then used to calculate a dilepton spectrum in ultrarelativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 A. V. Leonidov , P. V. Ruuskanen

We use a simple QCD-based model to study particle production in S+Au collisions at 200 GeV/n. A requisite consistency is met for the hadronic observables (pi0 and pi- spectra) while pursuing estimates for e+e- production. Since radiative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Murray , W. Bauer , K. Haglin

Using a relativistic transport model for the expansion stage of S+Au collisions at 200 GeV/nucleon, we show that the recently observed enhancement of low-mass dileptons by the CERES collaboration can be explained by the decrease of vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 G. Q. Li , C. M. Ko , G. E. Brown

The production of the low-mass dielectrons is considered to be a powerful tool to study the properties of the hot and dense matter created in the ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We present the preliminary results on the first…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander Kozlov

We reinterpret the dilepton emission rate from a hadronic gas expected to be produced in heavy ion collisions in terms of the spectral functions available from the $e^+e^-$ annihilation and the $\tau$ lepton decays experiments. We take into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Zheng Huang

We compute the spectra and elliptic flow of thermal photons emitted in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions (URHICs) at RHIC and LHC. The thermal emission rates are taken from complete leading-order rates for the QGP and hadronic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Hendrik van Hees , Min He , Ralf Rapp

The vacuum polarisation effects from the nucleon sector lead to large medium modifications of the vector meson masses in the Walecka model. With a quantum hadrodynamic framework including the quantum effects, and using a quasiparticle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Thorsten Renk , Amruta Mishra

The present status of our understanding of low mass dilepton production in relativistic heavy ion collisions is discussed. The focus of the discussion will be the sensitivity of dilepton measurements to in medium changes of hadrons and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 Volker Koch

High-energy collisions of various nuclei, so called ``Little Bangs'' are observed at various experiments of heavy ion colliders. The time evolution of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma created in heavy ion collisions can be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-02-20 Mate Csanad , Levente Krizsan

Using a rather complete description of the in-medium $\rho$ spectral function - being constrained by various independent experimental information - we calculate pertinent dilepton production rates from hot and dense hadronic matter. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 R. Rapp , J. Wambach

We analyze the photon rates from a hadronic gas in equilibrium using chiral reduction formulas and a density expansion. The chiral reduction is carried to second order in the pion density which in principal includes all kinetic processes of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-23 Kevin Dusling , Ismail Zahed

Using the transport model, we have studied dilepton production from heavy-ion collisions at Bevalac energies. It is found that the enhanced production of low-mass dileptons observed in the experiment by the DLS collaboration cannot be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 E. L. Bratkovskaya , C. M. Ko

The short parton production phase in high-energy heavy-ion collisions is treated analytically as a nonlinear diffusion process. The initial buildup of the rapidity density distributions of produced charged hadrons within tau_p = 0.25 fm/c…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-10 Georg Wolschin

The current status of our understanding of dilepton production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is discussed with special emphasis on signals from the (approach towards) chirally restored and deconfined phases. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Rapp