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Suppression of dilepton production in hot hadronic matter

Chungsik Song, Su Houng Lee, Che Ming Ko

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9412312

Abstract

The pion electromagnetic form factor at finite temperature is studied using an effective chiral lagrangian that includes explicitly vector mesons. We find that in the time-like region around the rho meson resonance it decreases with increasing temperature and leads to a suppression of dilepton production from pion-pion annihilation in a hot hadronic matter. Effects on dilepton production in high energy heavy ion collisions and its relevance to the phase transition in a hot hadronic matter are discussed.

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