What is the brightest source for dilepton emissions at ultrarelativistic energies?
- Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (United States)
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 quark production from an initial hard parton-parton scattering. We find that the thermal charm decay dominates the dilepton production in the low dilepton mass region ({lt}2 GeV), while the heavy quark production from the initial scattering takes over the intermediate and high mass regions ({gt}2 GeV). Our result also indicates the importance of the bottom quark in the high mass region ({gt}4 GeV) due to its large mass and cascade decay. If the initial scattering produced charm suffers a significant energy loss due to the secondary interaction, the bottom decay constitutes the major background for the thermal dileptons. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG03-93ER40792
- OSTI ID:
- 542326
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, C, Journal Name: Physical Review, C Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 56; ISSN PRVCAN; ISSN 0556-2813
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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