5 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…
Effects of a background magnetic field on dilepton radiation
Han Gao, Xiang-Yu Wu, Sangyong Jeon +1
We explore the feasibility of using dilepton radiations as a QGP magnetometer. We calculate the dilepton production rate in the presence of a time-dependent magnetic field typicall…
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…
Exploring the freeze-out hypersurface of relativistic nuclear collisions with a rapidity-dependent thermal model
Han Gao, Lipei Du, Sangyong Jeon +1
Considering applications to relativistic heavy-ion collisions, we develop a rapidity-dependent thermal model that includes thermal smearing effect and longitudinal boost. We calibr…