Dielectron Production inCollisions atwith the HADES Spectrometer
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- 1 February 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 98 (5), 052302
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.98.052302
Abstract
The invariant-mass spectrum of pairs produced in collisions at an incident energy of 2 GeV per nucleon has been measured for the first time. The measured pair production probabilities span over 5 orders of magnitude from the -Dalitz to the invariant-mass region. Dalitz decays of and account for all the yield up to , but for only about 50% above this mass. A comparison with model calculations shows that the excess pair yield is likely due to baryon-resonance and vector-meson decays. Transport calculations based on vacuum spectral functions fail, however, to describe the entire mass region.
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