INTERMEDIATE-MASS DILEPTONS FROM SECONDARY DRELL-YAN PROCESSES

Authors
SPIELES C GERLAND L HAMMON N BLEICHER M BASS SA STOCKER H GREINER W LOURENCO C VOGT R
Citation
C. Spieles et al., INTERMEDIATE-MASS DILEPTONS FROM SECONDARY DRELL-YAN PROCESSES, Nuclear physics. A, 638(1-2), 1998, pp. 507-510
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759474
Volume
638
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
507 - 510
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9474(1998)638:1-2<507:IDFSDP>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Recent reports on enhancements of intermediate and high mass muon pair s produced in heavy ion collisions have attracted much attention. To g ain a better understanding of the content of the dilepton continuum, w e study Drell-Yan production from secondary hadron interactions in nuc leus-nucleus collisions. We show that meson-baryon interactions can be an important source of m similar to 2 GeV dileptons. We also discuss the effects of preresonance parton collisions.