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Hyperon resonances are becoming an extremely useful tool allowing the study of the properties of hadronic fireballs made in heavy ion collisions. Their yield, compared to stable particles with the same quark composition, depends on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Markert , G. Torrieri , J. Rafelski

I present a theory-guided review of RHIC data, arguing that they provide strong evidence for formation of a thermalized quark-gluon plasma at RHIC. Strong radial flow reflects high thermal pressure in the reaction zone. Large elliptic flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 Ulrich W. Heinz

We study the thermal emission of photons from hot and dense strongly interacting hadronic matter at temperatures close to the expected phase transition to the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Earlier calculations of photon radiation from ensembles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Simon Turbide , Ralf Rapp , Charles Gale

Electromagnetic (EM) probes such as photons and dileptons provide direct insight into the space-time evolution of the hot and dense matter formed in heavy-ion collisions. Being unaffected by strong interactions, they serve as penetrating…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-01 Sebastian Scheid

The goal of the ultra-relativistic heavy ion program is to study Quantum Chromodynamics under finite temperature and density conditions. After a couple of decades of experiment, the focus at the top RHIC and the LHC energy has evolved to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-03 Xin Dong

We study the photoproduction process of dileptons in heavy ion collision at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energys. The equivalent photon approximation, which equates the electromagnetic field of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-16 Gongming Yu , Xinyu Li , Xinghang Zhang , Zhongxia Zhao , Haitao Yang

The study of dilepton and direct photon emission was one of the main topics of the experimental program at the SPS devoted to the search of signals for QGP formation. Three generations of experiments, Helios-3, NA38/NA50, CERES and NA60…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-18 Ruben Shahoyan

A model for the evolution of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at both CERN SPS and RHIC top energies is presented. Based on the assumption of thermalization and a parametrization of the space-time expansion of the produced matter,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thorsten Renk

We use QCD kinetic theory to compute photon and dilepton production in the chemically equilibrating out-of-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma created in the early stages of high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We derive universal scaling functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-04 Oscar Garcia-Montero , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Philip Plaschke , Sören Schlichting

We discuss a relation between the QCD thermodynamics obtained from a statistical analysis of particle production in heavy ion collisions at SPS and RHIC energies and recent LGT results at finite chemical potential. We show that basic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 K. Redlich , F. Karsch , A. Tawfik

We analyze the opportunity to observe thermal dileptons emitted off deconfined matter resulting in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. Special kinematical conditions provided by the detector systems PHENIX and ALICE, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Gallmeister , B. Kämpfer , O. P. Pavlenko

Effects of finite temperature correction to the dilepton emission rate in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions have been looked into. It has been seen that although the $\rho$-peak in the dilepton spectra from the hadronic sector is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Jan-e Alam , Sibaji Raha , Bikash Sinha

Study of thermal particle production is crucial to understand the space-time evolution of the fireball produced in high energy heavy-ion collisions. We consider thermal particle production within the framework of relativistic viscous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-20 Lakshmi J. Naik , Sunil Jaiswal , K. Sreelakshmi , Amaresh Jaiswal , V. Sreekanth

We investigate dimuon production in the context of a first-order phase transition in QCD matter using a chiral fluid dynamics model. This approach incorporates non-equilibrium effects such as entropy production and reheating, which emerge…

A systematic study of intermediate invariant mass dilepton production in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV is performed, using next-to-leading-order (NLO) thermal QCD dilepton emission rates with a multistage dynamical approach…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-14 Xiang-Yu Wu , Lipei Du , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon

Using the Landau-level representation for the imaginary part of the photon polarization tensor, we derive an explicit expression for the dilepton production rate from a hot quark-gluon plasma in a quantizing background magnetic field. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-16 Xinyang Wang , Igor A. Shovkovy

We investigate the significance of thermal dilepton radiation in the intermediate-mass region in heavy-ion reactions at CERN-SpS energies. Within a thermal fireball model for the space-time evolution, the radiation from hot matter is found…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Rapp , E. Shuryak

We review the properties of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at finite temperature $T$ and baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$ as created in heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies. The description of the strongly…

Systematic investigations of dilepton production are performed at the SIS accelerator of GSI with the HADES spectrometer. The goal of this program is a detailed understanding of di-electron emission from hadronic systems at moderate…

There are indications of formation of a thermalized medium in high multiplicity pp collisions at LHC energy. It is possible that such a medium may reach high enough energy density/temperature so that a transient stage of quark-gluon plasma,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-02 Partha Bagchi , Arpan Das , Srikumar Sengupta , Ajit M. Srivastava