Thermal photons as a sensitive probe of $\alpha$-cluster in C+Au collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Pingal Dasgupta, Guo-Liang Ma, Rupa Chatterjee +3

Different orientations of $\alpha$-clustered carbon nuclei colliding with heavy ions can result in a large variation in the value of anisotropic flow. Thus, photon flow observables from…