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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

The lepton pair production rate at finite temperature and at next-to-leading-order (NLO) is calculated for quark-gluon plasma at non-zero baryon density. Yields are obtained using a (3+1)D multicomponent simulation capable of reproducing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Jessica Churchill , Lipei Du , Bailey Forster , Han Gao , Greg Jackson , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

We study thermal dilepton production and anisotropic flow in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 \, \mathrm{TeV}$ using next-to-leading-order (NLO) thermal QCD dilepton emission rates. A hybrid model (IP-Glasma+\kompost+MUSIC+UrQMD)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-01 Xiang-Yu Wu , Lipei Du , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon

Due to their penetrating nature, dileptons are a valuable probe for the properties of the hot and/or dense medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Dilepton invariant-mass spectra provide direct access to the properties of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-02-25 H. van Hees , R. Rapp

We study dilepton production from a thermally equilibrating quark-gluon plasma expected to be formed in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The pre-equilibrium dynamics of quark-gluon plasma is studied within the color flux-tube model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gouranga C Nayak

Dilepton and photon production in heavy-ion collisions at SPS energies is studied in the relativistic transport model that incorporates self-consistently the change of hadron masses in dense matter. It is found that the dilepton spectra in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Q. Li , G. E. Brown , C. Gale , C. M. Ko

The initial collision geometry, including the reaction plane, is crucial for interpreting collective phenomena in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, yet it remains experimentally inaccessible through conventional measurements. Recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-09 Jiaxuan Luo , Xinbai Li , Zebo Tang , Xin Wu , Shuai Yang , Wangmei Zha , Zhan Zhang

Electromagnetic radiation is emitted during the whole course of a heavy-ion collision and can escape from the collision zone without further interactions. This makes it an ideal tool to study the properties of hot and dense QCD matter. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Florian Seck , Tetyana Galatyuk , Ralf Rapp , Joachim Stroth

The rate of emission of heavy dileptons from QGP is found without an assumption of its complete thermal equilibrium. We base on the real-time quantum field kinetic approach [1] and use the expansion up to the second order with respect to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Makhlin

The production of dileptons with an invariant mass in the range 1 GeV < M < 5 GeV provides unique insight into the approach to thermal equilibrium in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. In this mass range, they are produced…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-21 Maurice Coquet , Xiaojian Du , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Soeren Schlichting , Michael Winn

The effects of collisional processes in the hot QCD medium to thermal dilepton production from $q\overline{q}$ annihilation in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have been investigated. The non-equilibrium corrections to the momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-02 Lakshmi J. Naik , V. Sreekanth , Manu Kurian , Vinod Chandra

We present a fully relativistic and gauge invariant framework for calculating the cross sections of dilepton production in nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) collisions which is based on the meson-exchange approximation for the $NN$ scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-20 R. Shyam , U. Mosel

We compute the radiation of dileptons and photons using relativistic hydrodynamics and a coarse-grained version of the microscopic event generator UrQMD, both of which provide a good description of the hadron spectra. The currently most…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Joseph Kapusta

According to the dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) -- matched to reproduce lattice QCD results in thermodynamic limit, -- the constituents of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) are massive and off-shell quasi-particles…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 E. L. Bratkovskaya , O. Linnyk , W. Cassing

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 review the production of lepton pairs during high energy nuclear collisions. We highlight the information being carried out of the hot and dense strongly interacting medium. We describe the phenomenon of scalar-vector mixing that can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles Gale

We present calculations of dilepton and photon spectra for the energy range $E_{\text{lab}}=2-35$ $A$GeV which will be available for the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at the future Facility for Anti-Proton and Ion Research…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Stephan Endres , Hendrik van Hees , Marcus Bleicher

Radiation of dileptons and photons from high energy nuclear collisions provides information on the space-time evolution of the hot dense matter produced therein. We compute this radiation using relativistic hydrodynamics and a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Huovinen , M. Belkacem , P. J. Ellis , J. I. Kapusta

According to the dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) - matched to reproduce lattice QCD results in thermodynamic limit, - the constituents of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) are massive and off-shell quasi-particles…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 O. Linnyk , E. L. Bratkovskaya , W. Cassing

It is investigated under which conditions an adiabatic adaption of the dynamic and spectral information of vector mesons to the changing medium in heavy ion collisions, as assumed in schematic model calculations and microscopic transport…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Schenke , C. Greiner