Speaker
Jason Kamin
(State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Description
Electron-positron pairs are effective probes for investigating the
hot, dense matter created in RHIC collisions because they are carry no
color charge and therefore, once created, do not interact strongly
with the medium. As a result, they retain characteristics of the full
time evolution and dynamics of the system. Among the many features,
the low mass region (m<1 GeV/c2) consists primarily of pairs from
Dalitz decays of light hadrons and direct decays of vector mesons that
can be modified by the medium, while the intermediate (1
Primary author
Jason Kamin
(State University of New York at Stony Brook)
