Published August 1995 | Version v1
Journal article

Suppression of dilepton production in hot hadronic matter

  • 1. Cyclotron Institute and Physics Department, Texas A ampersand M University, College Station, Texas 77843 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749 (Korea, Republic of)

Description

Dilepton production from pion-pion annihilation in a hot hadronic matter is studied using an effective chiral Lagrangian that includes explicitly vector mesons. We find that the production rate for dileptons with invariant masses around the ρ-meson resonance is suppressed as a result of the modification of the pion electromagnetic form factor at finite temperature. The relevance of this phenomenon to the partial restoration of chiral symmetry in hot hadronic matter is discussed

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
52
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. R476-R479.
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN