Probing collectivity in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collision by leptons and photons

Abstract

It has been shown that the evolution of collectivity in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collision is manifested in the variation of various HBT radii with invariant mass ($M$) extracted from the correlation functions of two lepton pairs. The value of the radial velocity ($v_r$) can be estimated from the ratio of the $p_T$ distributions of single photons to lepton pairs for various $M$ windows. It has been argued that the variation of radial flow with appropriate kinematic variables can be used as an indicator of a phase transition from initially produced partons to hadrons. We also consider the elliptic flow ($v_2^{HF}$) of the matter as probed by the single electron spectra originating from the semileptonic decays of heavy mesons. The measured values of $v_2^{HF}$ and the nuclear suppression factor ($R_{\mathrm{A}A}$) at RHIC energy have been reproduced simultaneously by including both the collisional and radiative processes within the scope of perturbative quantum chromodynamics. The $R_{\mathrm{A}A}$ and $v_2^{HF}$ have been predicted for LHC energy.

arXiv commentPlenary talk at ICPAQGP 2010, December 6-10, 2011, Goa, India

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