What is the Brightest Source for Dilepton Emissions at RHIC?

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dc.creatorFein, David
dc.creatorHuang, Zheng
dc.creatorValerio, Peter
dc.creatorSarcevic, Ina
dc.date1996-07-09
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:14:39Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:14:39Z
dc.descriptionWe calculate the dilepton emissions as the decay product of the charm and bottom quarks produced in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energy. We take into account the next-to-leading-order radiative corrections in perturbative QCD to the heavy quark production from both an initial hard parton-parton scattering and an ideal quark-gluon plasma. We find that the thermal charm decay dominates the dilepton production in the low dilepton mass region ($<2$ GeV), while the heavy quark production from the initial scattering takes over the intermediate and high mass regions ($> 2$ GeV). Our result also indicates the importance of the bottom quark in the high mass region ($>4 $ GeV ) due to its large mass and cascade decay. If the initial scattering produced charm suffers a significant energy loss due to the secondary interaction, the bottom decay constitutes the major background for the thermal dileptons.
dc.description12 pages in RevTeX, 3 epsf figures embedded
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9607264
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9607264
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.C56:1637-1646,1997
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevC.56.1637
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/192142
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleWhat is the Brightest Source for Dilepton Emissions at RHIC?
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