Excess dileptons in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions

被引:10
作者
Wong, CY [1 ]
Wang, ZQ [1 ]
机构
[1] CHINA INST ATOM ENERGY,BEIJING,PEOPLES R CHINA
关键词
proton-nucleus reaction; heavy-ion reaction; dilepton; charm;
D O I
10.1016/0370-2693(95)01471-3
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
It has been observed recently that while continuum dilepton production and open charm production in high-energy pA collisions can be described in terms of the superposition of pp collisions, dilepton yields in S+U collisions are in excess of similar extrapolations. This feature can be explained as arising from the interaction of gluons produced in different soft baryon-baryon collisions, leading to additional open-charm pairs in nucleus-nucleus collisions but not in pA collisions.
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