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Squeezing lepton pairs out of broken symmetries

A. K. Dutt-Mazumder, C. Gale, A. Majumder, O. Teodorescu

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0108011

Abstract

We discuss two possible signatures of symmetry breaking that can appear in dilepton spectra, as measured in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The first involves scalar-vector meson mixing and is related to the breaking of Lorentz symmetry by a hot medium. The second is related to the breaking of Furry's theorem by a charged quark-gluon plasma. Those signals will be accessible to upcoming measurements to be performed at the GSI, RHIC, and the LHC.

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