Dilepton emission in high-energy heavy-ion collisions with dissipative hydrodynamics

Abstract

In this contribution we study the effects of three transport coefficients of dissipative hydrodynamics on thermal dilepton anisotropic flow observables. The first two transport coefficients investigated influence the overall size and growth rate of shear viscous pressure, while the last transport coefficient governs the magnitude of net baryon number diffusion in relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics. All calculations are done using state-of-the-art 3+1D hydrodynamical simulations. We show that thermal dileptons are sensitive probes of the transport coefficients of dissipative hydrodynamics.

Invited talk presented at CIPANP2015 (Twelfth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vail, Colorado, USA, 19 - 24 May 2015); 10 pages, LaTeX, 8 PDF figures