Volume 320 - 12th International Workshop on High-pT Physics in the RHIC/LHC Era (High-pT2017) - Direct photons, heavy flavor, quarkonia
Impact of the initial high gluon density on the prompt photon yield and $v2$ in heavy-ion collisions with magnetic fields
A. Ayala*, J. David Castaño-Yepes, C. Dominguez, L. Alberto Hernández, S. Hernández-Ortíz and M. Elena Tejeda-Yeomans
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Pre-published on: June 20, 2019
Published on: October 09, 2019
Abstract
We compute prompt photon production from gluon fusion in the presence of a magnetic field in semi-central relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The main ingredient is the treatment of the high gluon density at early stages of the collision where intense magnetic fields are also present. The magnetic field opens new channels for photon production that are forbidden otherwise. The elliptic flow coefficient $v_2$ is also computed. The calculation takes into account the saturation scale and phenomenological factors. Overall, the treatment gives a good description of the excess photon yield and $v_2$, particularly at low values of photon transverse momentum.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.320.0024
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