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Chiral Dynamics, Deconfinement and Thermal Dileptons

D. Kharzeev, H. Satz

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9408356

Abstract

We show that in a hot hadron gas, chiral symmetry restoration and deconfinement lead to a strong suppression of dilepton production by pion annihilation in the continuum above the ρ-ω-ϕ peak. The suppression due to deconfinement persists also for annihilation reactions involving heavier mesons.

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