Electromagnetic and weak probes: theory

Abstract

An overview of the latest theoretical developments and results on electromagnetic and weak probes in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is presented. The possibilities to use electromagnetic probes, i.e., photons and dileptons, as a spectrometer, thermometer, chronometer, polarimeter, barometer, and multimeter of the collision system, as well as to explore the QCD phase diagram and to locate phase transitions such as the critical endpoint, are discussed.

Invited Plenary Talk given at Quark Matter 2019, to be published in Nuclear Physics A

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• In-Medium Spectral Functions of Vector- and Axial-Vector Mesons from the Functional Renormalization Group
• Universal Parametrization of Thermal Photon Rates in Hadronic Matter
• Fluctuating vector mesons in analytically continued FRG flow equations
• Medium effects on the electrical conductivity of a hot pion gas

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• Probing dense QCD matter: Muon measurements with the CBM experiment at FAIR