Investigating the Role of Electric Fields on Flow Harmonics in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Abstract

Using the blast-wave model, we explore the effect of electric fields on spectra and flow harmonics (especially the elliptic flow) for charged pions and protons. We incorporate the first-order correction to the single-particle distribution function due to the electric fields and the dissipative effect while calculating the invariant yields of hadron in the Cooper-Frey prescription at the freezeout hypersurface. We find a noticeable correction to the directed and elliptic flow of pions and protons for unidirectional and azimuthal asymmetric electric fields in the transverse plane of magnitude $\sim m_{\pi }^2$. Further, we observe mass dependency of the directed flow generated due to the electric fields. The splitting of particle and antiparticle's elliptic flow is also discussed.

10 pages, 8 figures

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