Low Mass Dimuons Produced in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

dc.creatorRuppert, Jorg
dc.creatorGale, Charles
dc.creatorRenk, Thorsten
dc.creatorLichard, Peter
dc.creatorKapusta, Joseph I.
dc.date2007-06-13
dc.date2007-10-10
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:41:16Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:41:16Z
dc.descriptionThe NA60 experiment has measured low-mass muon pair production in In-In collisions at 158 A GeV with unprecedented precision. We show that this data is reproduced very well by a dynamical model with parameters scaled from fits to measurements of hadronic transverse mass spectra and Hanbury-Brown and Twiss correlations in Pb-Pb and Pb-Au collisions at the same energy. The data is consistent with in-medium properties of $ρ$ and $ω$-mesons at finite temperature and density as deduced from empirical forward-scattering amplitudes. Inclusion of the vacuum decay of the $ρ$-meson after freeze-out is necessary for an understanding of the mass and transverse momentum spectrum of dimuons with $M \apprle 0.9 {\rm GeV}/c^2$.
dc.description4 pages, 3 figures, updated hadronic analysis
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1934
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1934
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.Lett.100:162301,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.162301
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/200478
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleLow Mass Dimuons Produced in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
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