{
  "id": "nucl-th/0702039",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2007-02-12T14:46:00.000Z",
  "updated": "2007-04-25T06:21:54.000Z",
  "title": "Elliptic flow of thermal dileptons in relativistic nuclear collisions",
  "authors": [
    "Rupa Chatterjee",
    "Dinesh K. Srivastava",
    "Ulrich W. Heinz",
    "Charles Gale"
  ],
  "comment": "Latex 8 pages including a total of 13 postscript figures. Added 2 figures, additional references, and expanded discussions. Figures modified for better viewing. To appear in Phys. Rev. C",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.C75:054909,2007",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevC.75.054909",
  "categories": [
    "nucl-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We calculate the transverse momentum and invariant mass dependence of elliptic flow of thermal dileptons for Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The system is described using hydrodynamics, with the assumption of formation of a thermalized quark-gluon plasma at some early time, followed by cooling through expansion, hadronization and decoupling. Dileptons are emitted throughout the expansion history: by annihilation of quarks and anti-quarks inthe early quark-gluon plasma stage and through a set of hadronic reactions during the late hadronic stage. The resulting differential elliptic flow exhibits a rich structure, with different dilepton mass windows providing access to different stages of the expansion history. Elliptic flow measurements for dileptons,combined with those of hadrons and direct photons, are a powerful tool for mapping the time-evolution of heavy-ion collisions.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2007-04-25T06:21:54.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "12.38.Mh",
      "25.75.-q"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "elliptic flow",
      "relativistic nuclear collisions",
      "thermal dileptons",
      "relativistic heavy ion collider",
      "inthe early quark-gluon plasma stage"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. C"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 744396
    }
  }
}