3 papers
nucl-th2026
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…
hep-ph2025
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…
nucl-th2025
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…