Can transport peak explain the low-mass enhancement of dileptons at RHIC?
Abstract
We propose a novel relation between the low-mass enhancement of dielectrons observed at PHENIX and transport coefficients of QGP such as the charge diffusion constant D and the relaxation time τJ. We parameterize the transport peak in the spectral function using the second-order relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics by Israel and Stewart. Combining the spectral function and the full (3+1)-dimensional hydrodynamical evolution with the lattice EoS, theoretical dielectron spectra and the experimental data are compared. Detailed analysis suggests that the low-mass dilepton enhancement originates mainly from the high-temperature QGP phase where there is a large electric charge fluctuation as obtained from lattice QCD simulations.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics G Nuclear Physics
- Pub Date:
- December 2011
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1106.5870
- Bibcode:
- 2011JPhG...38l4184A
- Keywords:
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- Nuclear Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Nuclear Experiment
- E-Print:
- To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2011, May 23 - May 28, Annecy, France