International Conference on Science and Technology for FAIR in Europe 2014

Photons and dileptons are pristine probes of the hot and dense medium formed in heavy-ion collisions, since, once produced, they traverse the fireball undistorted. Dilepton invariant-mass spectra are the only known observable which enable a direct access to an in-medium spectral function, in the vector channel. In the vacuum, and at low mass (M<1.5GeV), the vector spectral function is...

The study of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter is probably the most challenging problem in the filed of heavy-ion collisions. The most prominent feature of the phase diagram is the existence of the deconfinement/chiral transition lines between hadronic and partonic phases. Modern Lattice QCD calculations advocate rapid crossover transition towards low net-baryon densities with...