Study of Spectral Modification of Hadrons through Electromagnetic Probes

Abstract

The medium modification of vector meson properties and its effects on thermal photon and dilepton emission rates from hot/dense hadronic matter are discussed. The role of spectral changes of hadrons in explaining the WA98 photon data and the CERES/NA45 dilepton data with similar initial conditions is demonstrated.

Comments: Presented at DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India, 26-30 Dec. 2001