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View SchemaElectron-positron pairs from thermal resonances in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions
| Authors | John J. Neumann, David Seibert, George Fai |
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| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/9505035 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9505035 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevC.53.14 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.C53:14-17,1996 |
Abstract
We use a boost-invariant one-dimensional (cylindrically symmetric) fluid dynamics code to calculate $e^+e^-$ production from $\rho^0$ and $\omega$ decay in the central rapidity region of a central S+Au collision at $\sqrt{s}=20$ GeV/nucleon. We use equations of state with a first-order phase transition between a massless pion gas and quark gluon plasma, with transition temperatures in the range $150-200$ MeV. The production cross section at the $\rho$ mass loosely constrains the transition and freeze-out temperatures, and we find that the $m_T$ spectrum is a good thermometer for sufficiently high $T_c$.
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