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A microscopic calculation of secondary Drell-Yan production in heavy ion collisions (1997)
Christian Spieles Lars Gerland Nils Hammon Marcus Bleicher Steffen A. Bass Horst Stöcker Walter Greiner Carlos Lourenco Ramona Vogt: A study of secondary Drell-Yan production in nuclear collisions is presented for SPS energies. In addition to the lepton pairs produced in the initial collisions of the projectile and target nucleons, we consider the potentially high dilepton yield from hard valence antiquarks in produced mesons and antibaryons. We calculate the secondary Drell-Yan contributions taking the collision spectrum of hadrons from the microscopic model URQMD. The con- tributions from meson-baryon interactions, small in hadron-nucleus interac- tions, are found to be substantial in nucleus-nucleus collisions at low dilepton masses. Preresonance collisions of partons may further increase the yields.

Intermediate mass excess of dilepton production in heavy ion collisions at BEVALAC energies (1998)
Christoph Ernst Steffen A. Bass Mohamed Belkacem Horst Stöcker Walter Greiner: Dielectron mass spectra are examined for various nuclear reactions recently measured by the DLS collaboration. A detailed description is given of all dilepton channels included in the transport model UrQMD 1.0, i.e. Dalitz decays of π, η, ω, ή mesons and of the (1232) resonance, direct decays of vector mesons and pn bremsstrahlung. The microscopic calculations reproduce data for light systems fairly well, but tend to underestimate the data in pp at high energies and in pd at low energies. These conventional sources, however, cannot explain the recently reported enhancement for nucleus-nucleus collisions in the mass region 0.15GeV ≤ Me+e- ≤ 0.6GeV. Chiral scaling and ω meson broadening in the medium are investigated as a source of this mass excess. They also cannot explain the recent DLS data.

Can momentum correlations proof kinetic equilibration in heavy ion collisions at 160/A-GeV? (1998)
Marcus Bleicher Mohamed Belkacem Christoph Ernst Henning Weber Lars Gerland Christian Spieles Steffen A. Bass Horst Stöcker Walter Greiner: We perform an event-by-event analysis of the transverse momentum distribution of final state particles in central Pb(160AGeV)+Pb collisions within a microscopic non-equilibrium transport model (UrQMD). Strong influence of rescattering is found. The extracted momentum distributions show less fluctuations in A+A collisions than in p+p reactions. This is in contrast to simplified p+p extrapolations and random walk models.

Dissociation rates of J / psi's with comoving mesons : thermal versus nonequilibrium scenario. (1998)
Christian Spieles Ramona Vogt Lars Gerland Steffen A. Bass Marcus Bleicher Horst Stöcker Walter Greiner: We study J/psi dissociation processes in hadronic environments. The validity of a thermal meson gas ansatz is tested by confronting it with an alternative, nonequilibrium scenario. Heavy ion collisions are simulated in the frame- work of the microscopic transport model UrQMD, taking into account the production of charmonium states through hard parton-parton interactions and subsequent rescattering with hadrons. The thermal gas and microscopic transport scenarios are shown to be very dissimilar. Estimates of J/psi survival probabilities based on thermal models of comover interactions in heavy ion collisions are therefore not reliable.

Signatures of quark gluon plasma formation in high-energy heavy ion collisions : a critical review (1998)
Steffen A. Bass Miklos Gyulassy Horst Stöcker Walter Greiner: Ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions offer the unique opportunity to probe highly excited dense nuclear matter under controlled laboratory conditions. The compelling driving force for such studies is the expectation that an entirely new form of matter may be created from such reactions. That form of matter, called the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), is the QCD analogue of the plasma phase of ordinary atomic matter. However, unlike such ordinary plasmas, the deconfined quanta of a QGP are not directly observable because of the fundamental confining property of the physical QCD vacuum. What is observable are hadronic and leptonic residues of the transient QGP state. There is a large variety of such individual probes.

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