Published May 1, 1994 | Version v1
Journal article

Minijet-associated dilepton production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions

  • 1. Laboratory of High Energy Physics, P. O. Box 9, SF-00014 University of Helsinki (Finland)
  • 2. Nuclear Science Division, Mailstop 70A-3307, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

Description

Dilepton production associated with minijets is calculated in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions using the first order approximation of the dilepton fragmentation functions of quarks and gluons. The full QCD evolution of the fragmentation functions is also studied. We find that the dilepton pairs from the fragmentation of minijets are comparable to direct Drell-Yan production at √s =200A GeV for small dilepton invariant masses M∼1--2 GeV/c2 while they are dominant over a large range of mass at √s =6400A GeV

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
49
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 4532-4541.
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ