DILEPTON AS A POSSIBLE SIGNATURE FOR THE BARYON-RICH QUARK-GLUON PLASMA

被引:15
作者
XIA, LH
KO, CM
LI, CT
机构
[1] TEXAS A&M UNIV SYST, INST CYCLOTRON, COLLEGE STN, TX 77843 USA
[2] TEXAS A&M UNIV SYST, CTR THEORET PHYS, COLLEGE STN, TX 77843 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW C | 1990年 / 41卷 / 02期
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10.1103/PhysRevC.41.572
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O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
学科分类号
070202 ;
摘要
In an expanding fireball model, we study dilepton production from high-energy heavy-ion collisions at the stopping regime. We find that the pion-pion annihilation gives the dominant contribution to the dilepton yield at invariant masses between 2m and 1 GeV. The total dilepton yield in this invariant mass region increases with the incident energy of the collision, but a saturation is seen once a baryon-rich quark-gluon plasma is formed in the initial stage. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:572 / 580
页数:9
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