Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-12-10
Phys.Rev.C77:024907,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.77.024907
Previous dilepton measurements in heavy-ion collisions have mainly focused on invariant mass spectra to clarify in-medium changes of vector meson properties. However, a dimuon is characterized by two scales -- invariant mass $M$ and transverse momentum $p_T$. Like transverse momentum spectra of hadrons, $p_T$ spectra of dileptons arise from an interplay between emission temperature and collective transverse flow, whereas the invariant mass is insensitive to flow. Having two control parameters of which only one is sensitive to flow allows at given $M$ to characterize the emission region in terms of average temperature and flow. Thus, one is able to study what phases of the fireball evolution radiate into a given mass window. We demonstrate this technique using the dimuon transverse momentum spectra measured by the NA60 collaboration and present strong arguments that a thermalized evolution phase with $T > 170$ MeV leaves an imprint in the spectra.
Renk Thorsten
Ruppert Jorg
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