MT scaling in dilepton spectrum as a signature for quark-gluon plasma. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In general, the spectrum of lepton pairs produced in nuclear reactions depends on both invariant mass and momentum. But under a few reasonable assumptions on the time evolution of the system, we show that once the quark-gluon plasma is created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, the observed dilepton spectrum between the and J peak becomes dependent essentially only on its transverse mass MT and thus shows MT scaling. This scaling will not be observed if the quark-gluon plasma is not created in collisions. 1993 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Asakawa, M., Ko, C. M., & Lvai, P.

citation count

  • 32

complete list of authors

  • Asakawa, M||Ko, CM||Lévai, P

publication date

  • January 1993