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Thermal Dilepton Polarization and Dynamics of the QCD Plasma in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Xiang-Yu Wu1, Han Gao1, Bailey Forster1
1McGill University, Department of Physics, 3600 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada.
Abstract:
We present the first theoretical study of the polarization of lepton pairs produced in sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC, using next-to-leading order (NLO) dilepton emission rates. These calculations employ a multistage framework to simulate the evolution of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and to explore the sensitivity of polarization to early times. It is found that the intermediate invariant-mass dileptons are indeed probes of the thermal equilibration process, and go beyond the reach of hadronic observables. We compute the polarization anisotropy coefficient obtained with LO dilepton rates, and show that the LO and NLO results differ radically, both in trend and in magnitude, at low and intermediate lepton pair invariant masses.
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