DM12 Helmholtz International Summer School in Dubna
Dileptons in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Lecturer: Hendrik van Hees
Lectures (Theory)
Lecture I: Introduction to electromagnetic probes, QCD, chiral symmetries (Hendrik van Hees) [pdf]
Lecture II: Elementary hadronic interactions, QED of hadrons, Dileptons in pp, pn and pA reactions at SIS (GSI, HADES experiment) [pdf]
Lecture III: Partonic and Hadronic Many-Body Theory; Dileptons in AA collisions at SPS (CERN, Ceres/NA45, NA60) and RHIC (BNL, PHENIX and STAR) [pdf]
Quiz for the discussion session [pdf]
Elementary-Particle Physics and (Thermal) Quantum Field Theory
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General Literature on Heavy-Ion Collisions
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Hadronic Transport
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Electromagnetic Probes in Heavy-Ion Collisions and Medium Modifications of Hadron Properties
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Rapp, R., Wambach, J., and van Hees, H. The Chiral Restoration Transition of QCD and Low Mass Dileptons. Landolt-Börnstein I/23 (2009) 4-1.
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Link to paper (Appendix)
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H. van Hees, R. Rapp, Comprehensive interpretation of thermal dileptons at the SPS, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 102301.
H. van Hees, R. Rapp, Dilepton Radiation at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron, Nucl. Phys. A 806 (2008) 339.
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