Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2001-10-27
Phys.Lett. B530 (2002) 147-152
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
9 pages, LaTeX2e File, 5 EPS files; minor corrections, modified error bins in Fig.2a
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01326-6
Using clover improved Wilson fermions we calculate thermal vector meson correlation functions above the deconfinement phase transition of quenched QCD. At temperatures 1.5 Tc and 3Tc they are found to differ by less than 15% from that of a freely propagating quark anti-quark pair. This puts severe constraints on the dilepton production rate and in particular rules out a strong divergence of the dilepton rate at low energies. The vector spectral function, which has been reconstructed using the Maximum Entropy Method, yields an enhancement of the dilepton rate over the Born rate of at most a factor two in the energy interval 4 < E/T < 8 and suggests that the spectrum is cut-off at low energies by a thermal mass threshold of about (2-3)T.
Karsch Frithjof
Laermann Edwin
Petreczky Peter
Stickan Sven
Wetzorke Ines
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