Thermal photon anisotropic flow serves as a quark-gluon plasma viscometer
arXiv:1403.7558 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2014.07.042
Abstract
Photons are a penetrating probe of the hot and dense medium created in heavy-ion collisions. We present state-of-the-art calculations of viscous photon emission from nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC. Thermal photons anisotropic flow coefficients v_n are computed, both with and without accounting for viscous corrections to the standard thermal emission rates. These corrections are found to have a larger effect on the v_n coefficients than the viscous suppression of hydrodynamic flow anisotropies. For thermal photons, the ratio v_2{SP}/v_3{SP} shows stronger sensitivity to the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) shear viscosity than for hadrons, and it can thus serve as a sensitive QGP viscometer.
4 pages, 6 figures, hard probes 2013 proceeding
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