Formation Time of QGP from Thermal Photon Elliptic Flow

Abstract

We show that the transverse momentum dependent elliptic flow $v_2(p_T)$ of thermal photons is quite sensitive to the initial formation time (${\tau }_0$) of Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) for semi-central collision of gold nuclei at RHIC \cite{tau}. A smaller value of the formation time or a larger initial temperature leads to a significant increase in the thermal photon radiation from QGP phase, which has a smaller $v_2$. The elliptic flow of thermal photon is dominated by the contribution from the quark matter at intermediate and high $p_T$ range and as a result sum $v_2$ decreases with smaller ${\tau }_0$ for $p_T\ge 1.5$ GeV. On the other hand we find that the elliptic flow parameter for hadrons depends only marginally on the value of ${\tau }_0$.

4 pages, 3 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee, v2: minor corrections

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