10th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

May 31, 2020 to June 5, 2020
Online
US/Central timezone

Untangling the evolution of heavy ion collisions using direct photon interferometry

Jun 2, 2020, 7:30 AM
1h 20m
Online

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Poster Presentation Electroweak Probes

Speaker

Dr Oscar Garcia-Montero (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)

Description

Recently, two scenarios have been proposed to resolve the discrepancy between photon yield and the flow coefficients measured in nuclear collisions at RHIC and the LHC. In the first, additional photons are produced from the early pre-equilibrium stage computed from the "bottom-up" thermalization scenario [1-3]. In the second, the thermal rates are enhanced close to the pseudo-critical temperature $T_c\sim 155\,\mathrm{MeV}$ using a phenomenological ansatz [4]. We investigate the measurement of Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) photon correlations [5] as an experimental tool to discriminate between such scenarios. By enhancing standard hydrodynamical simulations with these scenarios, we compute the correlators in terms of the relative momenta of the pair for different values of its transverse momenta, $K_\perp$. We find that the longitudinal correlation is the most sensitive to different photon sources. We compliment this theoretical exploration with a study of the feasibility of measuring a direct photon HBT signal in the upcoming high-luminosity LHC runs. Considering only statistical uncertainties, we find that with the projected $\sim 10^{10}$ heavy ion events a measurement of the HBT correlations for $K_\perp < 1\mathrm{GeV}$ is statistically significant.

[1] J. Berges, K. Reygers, N. Tanji, and R. Venugopalan, Phys. Rev. C95, 054904 (2017), arXiv:1701.05064 [nucl- th]
[2] R. Baier, A. H. Mueller, D. Schiff, and D. T. Son, Phys. Lett. B502, 51 (2001), arXiv:hep-ph/0009237 [hep-ph]
[3] O. Garcia-Montero, (2019), arXiv:1909.12294 [hep-ph]
[4] H. van Hees, M. He, and R. Rapp, Nucl. Phys. A933, 256 (2015), arXiv:1404.2846 [nucl-th]
[5] E. Frodermann and U. Heinz, Phys. Rev. C80, 044903 (2009), arXiv:0907.1292 [nucl-th]

Track Electroweak Probes Contributed Talk

Primary authors

Dr Oscar Garcia-Montero (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) Nicole Alice Martin (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) Dr Aleksas Mazeliauskas (CERN) Klaus Johannes Reygers (Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)) Jürgen Berges (Heidelberg University)

Presentation materials

 HP_HBT.pdf Poster.mp4 Zoom Room