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Low mass dilepton production in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Journal Article · · Physics of Particles and Nuclei
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  1. Moscow State Education Enterprise of the Higher Professional Education, Institute of Engineering Physics, Moscow (Russian Federation)
Mechanisms of formation for low mass dilepton excess observed in the relativistic heavy ion collisions are considered. The experimental data are reviewed. In addition to discussing the standard mechanisms of dilepton production specific to the collisions of relativistic nuclei (the pion annihilation in the hadron-gas stage and the quark-antiquark annihilation in the quark-gluon phase), the mechanism of dilepton production in the mixed phase of nuclear matter is proposed, and its contribution to the low mass dilepton spectrum is estimated. In addition, the first-order corrections in the strong-interaction coupling constant to the dilepton production in the parton medium and the nonperturbative approaches are considered.
OSTI ID:
22974914
Journal Information:
Physics of Particles and Nuclei, Journal Name: Physics of Particles and Nuclei Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 40; ISSN 1063-7796
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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