Dilepton Radiation at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
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A quantitative evaluation of dilepton sources in heavy-ion reactions is performed taking into account both thermal and non-thermal production mechanisms. The hadronic thermal emission rate is based on an electromagnetic current-correlation function with a low-mass region (LMR, M . 1 GeV) dominated by vector mesons (ρ, ω, φ) and an intermediate-mass region (IMR, 1 GeV ≤ M ≤ 3 GeV) characterized by (the onset of) a multi-meson continuum. A convolution of the emission rates over a thermal fireball expansion results in good agreement with experiment in the low-mass spectra, confirming the predicted broadening of the ρ meson in hadronic matter in connection with the prevalence of baryon-induced medium effects. The absolute magnitude of the LMR excess is mostly controlled by the fireball lifetime, which in turn leads to a consistent explanation of the dilepton excess in the IMR in terms of thermal radiation. The analysis of experimental transversemomentum (qT ) spectra reveals discrepancies with thermal emission for qT & 1 GeV in noncentral In-In collisions, which we address by extending our calculations by: (i) a refined treatment of ρ decays at thermal freezeout, (ii) primordially produced ρ’s subject to energy-loss, (iii) Drell-Yan annihilation, and (iv) thermal radiation from t-channel meson exchange processes. We investigate the sensitivity of dilepton spectra to the critical temperature and hadro-chemical freezeout of the fireball. The ρ broadening in the LMR turns out to be robust, while in the IMR Quark-Gluon Plasma radiation is moderate unless the critical temperature is rather low.
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