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Dileptons in heavy-ion collisions

arXiv:2609.13985 · doi:10.1140/epjs/s11734-026-02633-z

Abstract

In this review we give an overview about dileptons as probes for the properties of the strongly interacting hot and dense matter created in heavy-ion collisions at various beam energies. As penetrating probes they leave the fireball unaffected from final-state interactions and thus provide a space-time-evolution weighted average of the in-medium properties of hot and dense QCD matter.

arXiv commentInvited review accepted for publication by The European Physical Journal Special Topics