相对论重离子碰撞中直接光子的产生_53909.pptVIP

SQM2008 Beijing Elliptic flow of thermal photons in Au+Au collisions at 200GeV Outline Motivations Calculation approach Results Conclusion Motivations The properties of the hot dense matter created in heavy ion collision are of great interest, especially the critical behaviors. As penetrating probes, thermal photons can provide the inner information of the plasma, which is a useful compensation to the signals of hadrons emitted from the surface of the plasma. Questions: What can we learn from direct photon signals? How is thermal photon signal, i.e. the elliptic flow, related to the system evolution? … Calculation approach All sources of direct photons: from primordial scatterings at early stage, thermal photons, jet photon conversion, fragmentation contribution, … The space-time evolution of the created hot dense matter ? distributions of thermal partons ?? thermal photons, low pt hadrons The propagation of jets in plasma (energy loss) ? distribution of hard partons ?? high pt photons and hadrons thermal photon production the evolution of the matter Initial conditions at Time evolution of the plasma pt dependence of thermal photon v2 Centrality dependence of pt-int. v2 Rapidity dependence Thermal photons from eta_s source Conclusion Ideal hydro model can reproduce the measured pt spectra of direct photons at different centrality with the four sources we considered. Thermal photons’ v2 decreases at higher pt due to more fraction from early emission. We predict thermal photons’ v2 reaches maximum at 40-50% centrality, due to the interplay between the strength and asymmetry of the transverse flow. Contrary to hadronic v2, no need of viscosity here. Thermal photons dominant the low pt contribution and become the main part in the pt-integrated v2 of direct photons. Similar to hadronic signal, the rapidity distribution of thermal photons’ v2 can reveal the initial longitudinal energy/entropy distributi