M. G. -H. Mostafa | Searcharxiv

arXiv1995

Effect of $q\bar q$ Initial-state Interaction on Dilepton Emission Rate from Quark-Gluon Plasma

We calculate the dilepton production rate from a thermalized quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energies. Higher-order QCD corrections are included by using an analytical correction factor $K^{(i)}$, which takes into account the $q\bar q$ initial-state interactions. We show that the analytic correction factor gives very good agreement with experimental Drell-Yan data and leads to large enhancement of the thermal dilepton emission rates. We compare the thermal dilepton yields with the expected production from open-charm decays and Drell-Yan background and assess the prospects of observing thermal dileptons from the quark-gluon-plasma at invariant masses of a few GeV.

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arXiv1995

Boundary and Coulomb Effects on Boson Systems in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions

The boundary of a boson system plays an important role in determining the momentum distribution of the bosons. For a boson system with a cylindrical boundary, the momentum distribution is enhanced at high transverse momenta but suppressed at low transverse momenta, relative to a Bose-Einstein distribution. The boundary effects on systems of massless gluons and massive pions are studied. For gluons in a quark-gluon plasma, the presence of the boundary may modify the signals for the quark-gluon plasma. For pions in a pion system in heavy-ion collisions, Coulomb final-state interactions with the nuclear participants in the vicinity of the central rapidity region further modify the momentum distribution at low transverse momenta. By including both the boundary effect and the Coulomb final-state interactions we are able to account for the behavior of the $π^{-}$ transverse momentum spectrum observed in many heavy-ion experiments, notably at low transverse momenta.

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