Dileptons from the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP)

To address the dilepton production in a hot and dense medium – as created in heavy-ion collisions – we employ an up-to-date relativistic transport model, i.e. the Parton Hadron String Dynamics [1] (PHSD) that incorporates the explicit partonic phase in the early reaction region. The approach consistently describes the full evolution of a relativistic heavy-ion collision from the initial hard scatterings