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Abstract
We study the production of dileptons in relativistic nucleon-nucleon collisions. Additionally
to the traditional dilepton production channels (vector meson decays, meson and Delta(1232)
Dalitz decays) we included in our model as new dilepton sources the Dalitz decay of
higher unflavored baryon resonances with spin<=5/2 and mass<=2.25 GeV/c^2. The contributions
of these new channels are estimated using experimental information about the Ngamma
decays of the resonances and have large uncertainties. The obtained dilepton spectra
are compared to the experimental data by the DLS collaboration. Predictions for the
HADES detector (SIS, GSI) are also discussed. In spite of the large uncertainties
of the higher resonance Dalitz decay contributions we are able to draw the conclusion
that these contributions are negligible compared to the other dilepton sources and
do not influence the detectability of the phi and omega vector meson peaks.