Electromagnetic Probes in Heavy-ion Collisions - Messengers from the Hot and Dense Phase
Author | : Hendrik van Hees |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1375085562 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Download or read book Electromagnetic Probes in Heavy-ion Collisions - Messengers from the Hot and Dense Phase written by Hendrik van Hees and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to their penetrating nature, electromagnetic probes, i.e., lepton-antilepton pairs (dileptons) and photons are unique tools to gain insight into the nature of the hot and dense medium of strongly-interacting particles created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, including hints to the nature of the restoration of chiral symmetry of QCD. Of particular interest are the spectral properties of the electromagnetic current-correlation function of these particles within the dense and/or hot medium. The related theoretical investigations of the in-medium properties of the involved particles in both the partonic and hadronic part of the QCD phase diagram underline the importance of a proper understanding of the properties of various hadron resonances in the medium.