Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2006-05-09
Phys.Rev. C74 (2006) 044901
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
6 pages, figures added, references added, with more elaborate discussions
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.74.044901
An overwhelming fraction of photons from relativistic heavy ion collisions has its origin in the decay of $\pi^0$ and $\eta$ mesons. We calculate the azimuthal asymmetry of the decay photons for several azimuthally asymmetric pion distributions. We find that the $k_T$ dependence of the elliptic flow parameter$v_2$ for the decay photons closely follows the elliptic flow parameter $v_2^{\pi^0}$ evaluated at $p_T \approx k_T+\delta$, where $\delta\approx$ 0.1 -- 0.2 GeV, for typical pion distributions measured in nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energies. Similar results are obtained for photons from the 2-$\gamma$ decay of $\eta$ mesons. Assuming that the flow of $\pi^0$ is similar to those for $\pi^+$ and $\pi^-$ for which independent measurements would be generally available, this ansatz can help in identifying additional sources for photons. Taken along with quark number scaling suggested by the recombination model, it may help to estimate $v_2$ of the parton distributions in terms of azimuthal asymmetry of the decay photons at large $k_T$.
Chatterjee Rupa
Layek Biswanath
Srivastava Dinesh K.
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