Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-01-06
Phys.Rev.C74:014903,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
20 pages, 12 figures, discussions added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.74.014903
We discuss the emission of high momentum lepton pairs in central Au+Au collisions at RHIC ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$200 GeV) and Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$5500 GeV). Yields of dileptons produced through interactions of jets with thermal partons have been calculated, with next-to-leading order corrections through hard thermal loops (HTL) resummation. They are compared to thermal dilepton emission and the Drell-Yan process. A complete leading order treatment of jet energy loss has been included. Jet-plasma interactions are found to dominate over thermal dilepton emission for all values of the invariant mass $M$. Drell-Yan is the dominant source of high momentum lepton pairs for $M >$ 3 GeV at RHIC, after the background from heavy quark decays is subtracted. At LHC, the range $M<7$ GeV is dominated by jet-plasma interactions. Effects from jet energy loss on jet-plasma interactions turn out to be weak, but non-negligible, reducing the yield of low-mass dileptons by about 30%.
Fries Rainer J.
Gale Charles
Srivastava Dinesh K.
Turbide Simon
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