Theory and Phenomenology of Vector Mesons in Medium

Abstract

Electromagnetic probes promise to be direct messengers of (spectral properties of) hot and dense matter formed in heavy-ion collisions, even at soft momentum transfers essential for characterizing possible phase transitions. We examine how far we have progressed toward this goal by highlighting recent developments, and trying to establish connections between lattice QCD, effective hadronic models and phenomenology of dilepton production.

8 pages latex incl. 12 ps/eps files; invited plenary talk at Quark Matter 2006 conference, Shanghai (China), Nov. 14-20, 2006

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• Comprehensive Interpretation of Thermal Dileptons at the SPS
• Thermal Dimuon Yields at NA60
• Dilepton yields from Brown-Rho scaled vector mesons including memory effects
• Thermal Dilepton Production from Dropping rho based on the Vector Manifestation

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• Lepton-pair production in nuclear collisions - past, present, future