Probing dense baryon-rich matter with virtual photons
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Nature Physics
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Publication Date
- Jul 29, 2019
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1040–1045
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1038/s41567-019-0583-8
- Source
- Springer Nature
- License
- Yellow
Abstract
Virtual photons emitted from strong-interaction matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions decay into electron–positron pairs, which provide information about the system’s properties.