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Can transport peak explain the low-mass enhancement of dileptons at RHIC?

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Published 10 November 2011 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Y Akamatsu et al 2011 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 38 124184 DOI 10.1088/0954-3899/38/12/124184

0954-3899/38/12/124184

Abstract

We propose a novel relation between the low-mass enhancement of dielectrons observed at PHENIX and transport coefficients of QGP such as the charge diffusion constant D and the relaxation time τJ. We parameterize the transport peak in the spectral function using the second-order relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics by Israel and Stewart. Combining the spectral function and the full (3+1)-dimensional hydrodynamical evolution with the lattice EoS, theoretical dielectron spectra and the experimental data are compared. Detailed analysis suggests that the low-mass dilepton enhancement originates mainly from the high-temperature QGP phase where there is a large electric charge fluctuation as obtained from lattice QCD simulations.

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10.1088/0954-3899/38/12/124184