5 papers
Thermal dilepton production in heavy-ion collisions at beam-energy-scan (BES) energies
Jessica Churchill, Lipei Du, Bailey Forster +4
The lepton pair production rate at finite temperature and at next-to-leading-order (NLO) is calculated for quark-gluon plasma at non-zero baryon density. Yields are obtained using…
Virtual Photons Shed Light on the Early Temperature of Dense QCD Matter
Jessica Churchill, Lipei Du, Charles Gale +2
Dileptons produced during heavy-ion collisions represent a unique probe of the QCD phase diagram, and convey information about the state of the strongly interacting system at the m…
Dilepton production at next-to-leading order and intermediate invariant-mass observables
Jessica Churchill, Lipei Du, Charles Gale +2
The thermal QCD dilepton production rate is calculated at next-to-leading order in the strong coupling and at finite baryon chemical potential. The two-loop virtual photon self-ene…
The emission of electromagnetic radiation from the early stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Jessica Churchill, Li Yan, Sangyong Jeon +1
We estimate the production of electromagnetic radiation (real and virtual photons) from the early, pre-equilibrium, stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The parton dynamics…
Electromagnetic radiation from the pre-equilibrium/pre-hydro stage of the quark-gluon plasma
Jessica Churchill, Li Yan, Sangyong Jeon +1
Photons produced in the pre-equilibrium/pre-hydro stage of the quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions were computed using parton distribution functions ob…