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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…
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…