Research Article

Dilepton Spectroscopy of QCD Matter at Collider Energies

Figure 4

Time evolution of fireball temperature in semicentral collisions at RHIC within (the central cell of) ideal hydrodynamics (a) [42] and an expanding fireball model (b). The dashed green and dotted blue lines in (a) are to be compared to the dashed green and solid blue lines in (b), respectively.
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