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Disoriented chiral condensates or long wavelength pionic oscillations and their interaction with the thermal environment can be a significant source of dileptons. We calculate the yield of such dilepton production within the linear sigma…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 Y. Kluger , V. Koch , J. Randrup , X. N. Wang

Exclusive dilepton production occurs with high cross section in gamma-mediated processes at the LHC. The pure QED process $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow\ell^+\ell^-$ provides the conditions to study particle production with masses at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-05-22 Michele Gallinaro

Heavy vector mesons provide important information about the quark gluon plasma (QGP) formed in heavy ion collisions. This happens because the fraction of quarkonium states that are produced depends on the properties of the medium. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-22 Nelson R. F. Braga , Yan F. Ferreira

We discuss production of heavy partciles during reheating. We find that the very energetic inflaton decay products can contribute to the production of massive stable particles, either through collisions with the thermal plasma, or through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Manuel Drees

Recently lots of efforts have been made to obtain the next to leading order and Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal corrections to the thermal dilepton emission rate in perturbative QCD. Here we apply these results to the plasma created in heavy ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-13 Yannis Burnier , Chiara Gastaldi

We consider dilepton production in high energy proton-nucleus (and very forward nucleus-nucleus) collisions. Treating the target nucleus as a Color Glass Condensate and describing the projectile proton (nucleus) as a collection of quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 F. Gelis , Jamal Jalilian-Marian

The cross sections of heavy quark production in $pp$ collision and for their photo- and electroproduction are calculated in the framework of QCD. The virtual nature of the interacting gluons as well as their transverse motion and different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-25 M. G. Ryskin , Yu. M. Shabelski , A. G. Shuvaev

We calculate the yield and elliptic flow of mid-rapidity dileptons emitted from the quark-gluon plasma generated in Pb-Pb collisions at LHC. We use relativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics for the 3+1 dimensional evolution of the quark-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-26 Babak S. Kasmaei , Michael Strickland

Dielectrons from heavy flavor hadron decays not only constitute a crucial background to their thermal spectrum in high-energy nuclear collisions, from which the temperature of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is extracted, but also provide a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 Lejing Zhang , Wen-Jing Xing , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

Direct photon production from a longitudinally expanding quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies is studied with a real-time kinetic description that is consistently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Shang-Yung Wang , Daniel Boyanovsky , Kin-Wang Ng

A fireball model with time evolution based on transport calculations is used to examine the dilepton emission rate of an ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collision. We assume a transition from hadronic matter to a quark-gluon plasma at a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. A. Schneider , W. Weise

We determine the out-of-equilibrium production rate of dileptons at rest in strongly coupled N=4 Super Yang-Mills plasma using the AdS/CFT correspondence. Thermalization is achieved via the gravitational collapse of a thin shell of matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Rudolf Baier , Stefan A. Stricker , Olli Taanila , Aleksi Vuorinen

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

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

We propose the angular distribution of lepton pairs produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions as a probe of thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma. We focus on dileptons with invariant masses large enough that they are produced…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-07 Maurice Coquet , Xiaojian Du , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Soeren Schlichting , Michael Winn

$\mathbf{Purpose}$: Incoherent processes in production of lepton pairs in the scattering of protons off nuclei are investigated. $\mathbf{Methods}$: New quantum mechanical model is constructed which uses generalization of the nuclear model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Sergei P. Maydanyuk , Gyorgy Wolf

In this review we address the dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion reactions and in particular the information obtained from electromagnetic probes that stem from the partonic and hadronic phases. The out-of-equilibrium description of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 O. Linnyk , E. L. Bratkovskaya , W. Cassing

A new channel of direct photon production from a quark gluon plasma (QGP) is explored in the framework of high-temperature QCD. This process appears at next-to-leading order, in the presence of a charge asymmetry in the excited matter. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-26 Guang-You Qin , Abhijit Majumder , Charles Gale

We calculate the dilepton emissions as the decay product of the charm and bottom quarks produced in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energy. We take into account the next-to-leading-order radiative corrections in perturbative QCD to the heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 David Fein , Zheng Huang , Peter Valerio , Ina Sarcevic

We consider the production of a 300GeV dilepton in very intense 4GeV electron scattering off of a lead target. The production cross-section and angular distribution of the resulting muons are calculated. There occur several such events per…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Paul H. Frampton , B. Charles Rasco