Thermal Dileptons as a Possible Source of the Soft Dilepton Enhancement Measured in A-A Collisions at SPS Energies

Details Thermal Dileptons as a Possible Source of the Soft Dilepton Enhancement Measured in A-A Collisions at SPS Energies Thermal Dileptons as a Possible Source of the Soft Dilepton Enhancement Measured in A-A Collisions at SPS Energies

1996-12-23

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9612448v1

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

9 pages LaTeX, 7 ps figures included, needs stwol.sty Invited talk presented by K. Redlich at the 28th International Conferenc

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The production of soft dileptons in a thermal mesonic medium is discussed in the context of recent CERN experimental data reported by the CERES Collaboration. We do not intend to give a general and critical review, but instead concentrate mainly on our approach, however, incorporating many of the recent attempts in the literature. We calculate the contributions to the dilepton yield arising from pion annihilation and $\pi -\rho$ scattering. It is shown that thermal dileptons from $\pi -\rho$ scattering give a significant contribution to the low-mass yield, however, it can only partly account for the experimentally observed soft dilepton excess seen in S-Au and Pb-Au collisions at SPS energy. The out off-equilibrium effects as well as a dropping vector meson mass are discussed in the context of the thermal dilepton yield. We emphasize, following the results of Li, Ko, and Brown, that, until now, the best way to provide a quantitative explanation of the observed enhancement of low-mass dileptons by the CERN experiments is the assumption of a decreasing vector meson mass in a high density thermal medium.

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