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The current status of various thermal and statistical descriptions of particle production in the ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions experiments is presented in detail. We discuss the formulation of various types of thermal models of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-06 S. K. Tiwari , C. P. Singh

We report on recent work relating the medium effects observed in dilepton spectra in heavy-ion collisions to potential signals of chiral symmetry restoration. The key connection remains the approach to spectral function degeneracy between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-21 P. M. Hohler , R. Rapp

Dilepton invariant-mass spectra for heavy-ion collisions at SIS 18 and BEVALAC energies are calculated using a coarse-grained time evolution from the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) model. The coarse-graining of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-08-04 Stephan Endres , Hendrik van Hees , Janus Weil , Marcus Bleicher

Theoretical and experimental studies of hot and/or dense matter, such as is created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, and encountered in compact objects in astrophysics, constitute one of the most active frontiers in nuclear physics. In…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Q. Li

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

Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are used to create a deconfined state of quarks and gluons, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), similar to the matter in the early universe. Dileptons are a unique probe of the QGP. Being emitted during all…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-12-12 R. Bailhache , H. Appelshäuser

Electromagnetic emission in the form of photons or dileptons provide important information on the onset and evolution of a heavy ion collision at ultrarelativistic energies. We briefly summarize the theoretical assessments of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-17 Ismail Zahed

The first part of this thesis focuses on the production of thermal dileptons from a hadronic gas at finite temperature. The rates are calculated by an expansion in Pion density and constrained by broken chiral symmetry and vacuum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-01-15 Kevin Dusling

Thermal photon and dilepton rates are important probes for understanding the quark-gluon plasma and QCD at high temperatures. As a consequence there is a strong interest to determine them using lattice QCD calculations. However, this is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-13 Anthony Francis

We attempt to understand the low-mass dielectron enhancement observed by PHENIX Collaboration at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) by transport peak in the spectral function. On the basis of the second-order formalism of relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Yukinao Akamatsu , Hideki Hamagaki , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Tetsufumi Hirano

We investigate dilepton production in a thermalized quark--gluon plasma subject to global rotation, in the rigid rotating approximation. We consider a generic process involving quark-antiquark annihilation followed by the emission of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Jorge David Castaño-Yepes , Enrique Muñoz

We study the invariant-mass distributions of dileptons produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at very low pair transverse momenta, $P_T\leq 0.15$ GeV. Specifically, we investigate the interplay of thermal radiation with initial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Ralf Rapp , Wolfgang Schäfer , Antoni Szczurek

We investigate the properties of the QCD matter across the deconfinement phase transition in the scope of the parton-hadron string dynamics (PHSD) transport approach. We present here in particular the results on the electromagnetic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-09-16 E. L. Bratkovskaya , O. Linnyk , W. Cassing

Using the Bayesian calibrated iEBE-MUSIC framework, we compute the production of electromagnetic radiation from hot hadronic matter at finite baryon density. Results for thermal photon and thermal dilepton yields are obtained by folding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-04 Xiang-Yu Wu , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon , Jean-François Paquet , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen

The production of light nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is well described by both the thermal model, where light nuclei are in equilibrium with all other hadron species present in a fireball, and by the coalescence model, where…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-08 Stanislaw Mrowczynski , Patrycja Slon

Starting from IP-Glasma initial conditions, we investigate the effects of bulk pressure on thermal dilepton production at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies. Though results of the thermal…

Dileptons, as an electromagnetic probe, are crucial to study the properties of a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in heavy ion collisions. We calculated the invariant mass spectra and the anisotropic emission of thermal dielectrons from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-12 Sheng-Xu Liu , Fu-Ming Liu , Klaus Werner , Meng Yue

We discuss the emission of high momentum lepton pairs in central Au+Au collisions at RHIC ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$200 GeV) and Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$5500 GeV). Yields of dileptons produced through interactions of jets with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Simon Turbide , Charles Gale , Dinesh K. Srivastava , Rainer J. Fries

In the lecture we review several issues related to recent development in non-perturbative QCD. The ``instanton liquid model'' reproduces not only the basic vacuum parameters (the condensates), but even hadronic correlators. New information…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Shuryak

The fireball created in an ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision is the environment in which all processes providing clues about the possible formation of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) happen. It is therefore crucial to understand the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Renk , R. A. Schneider , W. Weise