The STAR Dilepton Physics Program

Abstract

Dileptons provide ideal penetrating probes of the evolution of strongly-interacting matter. With the Time-of-Flight upgrade, STAR is in a unique position to provide large-acceptance dielectron measurements. We discuss preliminary dielectron results for Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$=19.6 - 200 GeV, and compare to recent model calculations. With upcoming detector upgrades STAR will further improve its dielectron measurements as well as include dimuon measurements.

Quark Matter 2012 proceedings, 8 pages, 9 figures

References in corpus (8)

• Centrality dependence of charged hadron and strange hadron elliptic flow from sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions
• Evidence for the production of thermal muon pairs with masses above 1 GeV/c^2 in 158A GeV Indium-Indium Collisions
• Modification of the rho meson detected by low-mass electron-positron pairs in central Pb-Au collisions at 158 A GeV/c
• Analysis of dilepton production in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV within the Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach
• Elliptic flow of thermal dileptons in relativistic nuclear collisions
• Di-electron spectrum at mid-rapidity in $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV
• Dielectron continuum production from $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV p + p and Au + Au collisions at STAR
• Di-electron production from vector mesons with medium modifications in heavy ion collisions

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