Dilepton flow and deconfinement phase transition in heavy ion collisions

TL;DR

This paper investigates dilepton flow in heavy ion collisions using hydrodynamics, highlighting how spectral features and flow patterns can signal the formation of quark-gluon plasma.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of dilepton flow and spectral features as indicators of the deconfinement phase transition in heavy ion collisions.

Findings

Distinct slope parameters for partonic and hadronic phases.

Elliptic flow and M_T scaling breaking differ between phases.

Spectral features serve as signals for quark-gluon plasma formation.

Abstract

The dilepton radial flow in Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV is investigated. The space-time evolution of the fireball is described by a 2+1 dimensional ideal hydrodynamics with a variety of equations of state. The slope parameters of the transverse momentum spectra from the partonic and hadronic phases show distinct features and are sensitive to equation of state parameters. The elliptic flow and breaking of M_T scaling are also studied and have distinct features for the two phases. These features can serve as clean signals for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions.