6 papers
The polarization of thermal dileptons emitted in high-energy heavy-ion collisions
Han Gao, Xiang-Yu Wu, Charles Gale +2
This work presents calculations of thermal dilepton emission and polarization observables. It features a comprehensive framework which comprises virtual photon spectral functions c…
Theory overview: electroweak emission from heavy-ion collisions
Greg Jackson
An important class of observables in the heavy-ion collision programme concerns probes which are not sensitive to the prevailing strong interactions of QCD. The emission of photons…
Thermal dilepton polarization and dynamics of the QCD plasma in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Xiang-Yu Wu, Han Gao, Bailey Forster +3
We present the first theoretical study of the polarization of lepton pairs produced in TeV Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC, using next-to-leading order (N…
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…