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Relativistic heavy-ion collisions produce a hot and dense thermalized medium, that is expected to emit thermal radiation in form of dileptons. These dileptons are not affected by the strong force and are therefore a clean probe for the…

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In high energy heavy ion collisions a new state of matter, the strongly coupled quark gluon plasma is formed that exhibits the similar properties as our Universe had just a couple of microseconds after the Big Bang, hence such collisions…

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We discuss the measurement of electromagnetic radiation produced in heavy ion collisions at SPS energies. We review the low invariant mass dilepton sector, the real photon data, and the spectra of intermediate mass dimuons. Along with this,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Charles Gale

Dilepton spectra are calculated within the microscopic transport model UrQMD and compared to data from the CERES experiment. The invariant mass spectra in the region 300 MeV < M < 600 MeV depend strongly on the mass dependence of the $\rho$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Ernst , S. A. Bass , S. Soff , H. Stöcker , W. Greiner

We investigate dilepton production in heavy-ion, proton-proton, and proton-nucleus collisions from low energies of 1 AGeV (SIS) to ultra-relativistic energies (LHC) using the Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach. PHSD is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-29 Adrian William Romero Jorge , Taesoo Song , Qi Zhou , Elena Bratkovskaya

We review the current state of research on electromagnetic probes in the context of heavy-ion collisions. The focus is on thermal photons and dileptons which provide unique insights into the properties of the created hot and dense matter.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-01 Ralf-Arno Tripolt , Frank Geurts

The collective behaviour of hadronic particles has been observed in high multiplicity proton-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), as well as in deuteron-gold collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-24 C. Shen , J. -F. Paquet , G. S. Denicol , S. Jeon , C. Gale

Dilepton and direct photon measurements in heavy ion collisions provide access to the early stages of the collision. Dilepton continuum measurements at SPS and RHIC show an excess consistent with broadening of the rho meson spectral…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-03-14 S. Campbell

The UrQMD transport model, version 3.4, is used to study the new experimental data on transverse momentum spectra of $\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, $p$ and $\bar p$ produced in inelastic $p+p$ interactions at SPS energies, recently published by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Vitalii Ozvenchuk , Andrzej Rybicki

The production of large $p_{T}$ dileptons and photons originating from photoproduction processes in p-p collisions at Large Hadron Collider energies is calculated. The comparisons between the exact treatment results and the ones of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-18 Zhi-Lei Ma , Jia-Qing Zhu

A review is presented of dilepton and real photon measurements in relativistic heavy ion collisions over a very broad energy range from the low energies of the BEVALAC up to the highest energies available at RHIC. The dileptons cover the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-13 Itzhak Tserruya

Dileptons produced during heavy-ion collisions represent a unique probe of the QCD phase diagram, and convey information about the state of the strongly interacting system at the moment their preceding off-shell photon is created. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-08 Jessica Churchill , Lipei Du , Charles Gale , Greg Jackson , Sangyong Jeon

The WA98 collaboration in the CERN SPS has reported an excess of photons over those originating from the decays of final hadrons in the lead-lead collisions. These photons can originate either from primary interactions of partons from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 S. S. Rasanen

The invariant cross sections for direct photon production in hadron-hadron collisions are calculated for several initial energies (SPS, ISR, S$p \bar p$S, RHIC, Tevatron, LHC) including initial parton transverse momenta within the formalism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Tomasz Pietrycki , Antoni Szczurek

Comparing dilepton data from Au+Au to p+p collisions at RHIC energies PHENIX revealed two striking features: (i) a large excess of the dilepton yield at low mass and low pT in central Au+Au and (ii) a significant enhancement of direct real…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-04-05 Axel Drees

This paper addresses the theoretical analysis of dilepton spectra in C+C collisions at GSI-SIS energies. Theoretical predictions for the recent data of the HADES collaboration at SIS-energies are made with the help of a hadron-string…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Diana Schumacher , Sascha Vogel , Marcus Bleicher

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

The expansion of the strongly interacting quark gluon plasma (sQGP) created in Au+Au collisions at RHIC can be described by hydrodynamical models. Hadrons are created after a freeze-out, thus their distribution describes the final state of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-14 Mate Csanad

We calculate the high energy photon production from the Pb+Pb collisions for different centrality classes at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=2.76 TeV Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energy. The jet energy loss in the jet fragmentation, jet-photon conversion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-16 Yong-Ping Fu , Qin Xi

The photon and dilepton emission rates from quark gluon plasma and hot hadronic matter have been evaluated. The in-medium modifications of the particles appearing in the internal loop of the self energy diagram are taken into account by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan-e Alam , Sourav Sarkar , Pradip Roy , T. Hatsuda , Bikash Sinha