Dilepton production at intermediate energies with in-medium spectral functions of vector mesons

Abstract

We report on a self-consistent calculation of the in-medium spectral functions of the rho and omega mesons at finite baryon density. The corresponding in-medium dilepton spectrum is generated and compared with HADES data. We find that an iterative calculation of the vector meson spectral functions provides a reasonable description of the experimental data.

Comments: Talk given at International School of Nuclear Physics, 30th Course, "Heavy Ion Collisions from the Coulomb Barrier to the Quark Gluon Plasma", Erice, Italy, 16-24 Sep 2008