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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 96, 期 16, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.162302
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We report on a precision measurement of low-mass muon pairs in 158 AGeV indium-indium collisions at the CERN SPS. A significant excess of pairs is observed above the yield expected from neutral meson decays. The unprecedented sample size of 360 000 dimuons and the good mass resolution of about 2% allow us to isolate the excess by subtraction of the decay sources. The shape of the resulting mass spectrum is consistent with a dominant contribution from pi(+)pi(-)->rho ->mu(+)mu(-) annihilation. The associated space-time averaged rho spectral function shows a strong broadening, but essentially no shift in mass. This may rule out theoretical models linking hadron masses directly to the chiral condensate.
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