Dilepton anisotropy from $p + Be$ and $Ca + Ca$ collisions at BEVALAC energies

Abstract

A full calculation of lepton-pair angular characteristics is carried out for $e^+e^-$ pairs created in $p + Be$ and $Ca + Ca$ collisions from 1.0 to 2.1 GeV/A. It is demonstrated that the dilepton decay anisotropy depends sensitively on the different sources and may be used for their disentangling. Due to the dominance of the $η$-and $Δ$-Dalitz decays and only a small anisotropy coefficient for $π^+π^-$ annihilation, the expected anisotropy coefficients show a decrease with invariant mass of the dilepton pair and change only moderately when comparing $p + Be$ and $Ca + Ca$ reactions at the same bombarding energy.

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