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Rapidity Distributions of Dileptons from a Hadronizing Quark-Gluon Plasma

R. Vogt, B. V. Jacak, P. L. McGaughey, P. V. Ruuskanen

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9309213

Abstract

It has been predicted that dilepton production may be used as a quark-gluon plasma probe. We calculate the rapidity distributions of thermal dileptons produced by an evolving quark-gluon plasma assuming a longitudinal scaling expansion with initial conditions locally determined from the hadronic rapidity density. These distributions are compared with Drell-Yan production and semileptonic charm decays at invariant mass M = 2, 4, and 6 GeV.

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