Electromagnetic Probes

Abstract

A review is presented of dilepton and real photon measurements in relativistic heavy ion collisions over a very broad energy range from the low energies of the BEVALAC up to the highest energies available at RHIC. The dileptons cover the invariant mass range \mll = 0 - 2.5 GeV/c${}^2$, i.e. the continuum at low and intermediate masses and the light vector mesons, $\rho ,\omega ,\varphi$. The review includes also measurements of the light vector mesons in elementary reactions.

To be published in Landolt-Boernstein Volume 1-23A; 40 pages, 24 figures. Final version updated with small changes to the text, updated references and updated figures

References in corpus (24)

• Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• Measurement of high-p_T Single Electrons from Heavy-Flavor Decays in p+p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV
• Dilepton Radiation at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
• Study of the electromagnetic transition form-factors in η-> μ^+μ^-γand ω-> μ^+μ^-π^0 decays with NA60
• Measurement of direct photon production in p + p collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV
• Comprehensive Interpretation of Thermal Dileptons at the SPS
• Dilepton production and off-shell transport dynamics at SIS energies
• Evidence for the production of thermal muon pairs with masses above 1 GeV/c^2 in 158A GeV Indium-Indium Collisions
• NA60 results on thermal dimuons
• Modification of the rho meson detected by low-mass electron-positron pairs in central Pb-Au collisions at 158 A GeV/c
• Modification of the $\omega$-Meson Lifetime in Nuclear Matter
• Study of dielectron production in C+C collisions at 1 AGeV
• Energy and system size dependence of ϕmeson production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions
• Evidence for radial flow of thermal dileptons in high-energy nuclear collisions
• Dilepton mass spectra in p+p collisions at sqrt(s)= 200 GeV and the contribution from open charm
• Low Mass Dimuons Produced in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
• Search for medium modification of the $\rho$ meson
• Inclusive $\omega$ photoproduction from nuclei and $\omega$ in the nuclear medium
• Low mass dilepton production at ultrarelativistic energies
• The CERES/NA45 Radial Drift Time Projection Chamber
• First results on angular distributions of thermal dileptons in nuclear collisions
• $\varphi$ Production in In-In Collisions at 158 AGeV
• Low-mass dielectrons from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC
• NA60 results on phi production in the hadronic and leptonic channels in In-In collisions at 158 GeV

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• Status and initial physics performance studies of the MPD experiment at NICA
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• Centrality dependence of dilepton production via $\gamma \gamma$ processes from Wigner distributions of photons in nuclei
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• Dielectron production in proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 5.02 TeV