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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

Low-mass dilepton spectra as measured in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are a unique tool to obtain spectroscopic information about the strongly interacting medium produced in these reactions. Specifically, in-medium modifications of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-12 Ralf Rapp

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

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

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

The production of soft dileptons in a thermal mesonic medium is discussed in the context of recent CERN experimental data reported by the CERES Collaboration. We do not intend to give a general and critical review, but instead concentrate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 R. Baier , M. Dirks , K. Redlich

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 dilepton production yields in relativistic heavy ion collisions are investigated along isentropic trajectories in the quark (Wigner) phase within the two-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. An enhancement of the ultra-low energy dilepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-27 Toru Nishimura , Yasushi Nara , Jan Steinheimer

Dilepton spectra from the decay of phi mesons produced in heavy-ion collisions at SIS/GSI energies ($\sim 2$ GeV/nucleon) are studied in the relativistic transport model. We include phi mesons produced from baryon-baryon, pion-baryon, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 W. S. Chung , C. M. Ko , G. Q. Li

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…

We calculate dilepton production rates from a fireball adapted to the kinematical conditions realized in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions over a broad range of beam energies. The freeze-out state of the fireball is fixed by hadronic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Renk , R. A. Schneider , W. Weise

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

We perform a systematic study of dilepton emission in a hot QCD medium based on three different scenarios of chiral mixing, each of which yields a characteristic structure in the vector spectral function. The in-medium spectral functions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-08 Azumi Sakai , Masayasu Harada , Chiho Nonaka , Chihiro Sasaki , Kenta Shigaki , Satoshi Yano

A set of different equations of state is implemented in the molecular dynamics part of a non-equilibrium transport simulation (UrQMD) of heavy-ion collisions. It is shown how different flow observables are affected by the density dependence…

Using a transport model that includes a first-order chiral phase transition between the partonic and the hadronic matter, we study the development of density fluctuations in the matter produced in heavy ion collisions as it undergoes the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-01 Kai-Jia Sun , Che Ming Ko , Feng Li , Jun Xu , Lie-Wen Chen

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

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

Assuming that gluon condensates are important even above the deconfining phase transition, we develop a model for the dilepton yield from a quark gluon plasma. Using a simple fire ball description of a heavy ion collision, and various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. -H. Lee , J. Wirstam , I. Zahed , T. H. Hansson

The excess of low invariant mass dilepton yield in heavy ion collisions arising from reduction in the rho meson mass at finite temperatures is partially suppressed because of the effect on the width of the rho meson induced by Bose…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Abhee K. Dutt-Mazumder , Jan-e Alam , Binayak Dutta-Roy , Bikash Sinha

Transport and hydrodynamical models used to describe the expansion stage of a heavy-ion collision at the CERN SPS give different dilepton spectrum even if they are tuned to reproduce the observed hadron spectra. To understand the origin of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Huovinen , V. Koch