AZIMUTHAL ASYMMETRY AND CORRELATIONS OF HARD PHOTONS IN INTERMEDIATE ENERGY HEAVY ION COLLISIONS

Abstract

Hard photon emitted from energetic heavy ion collisions is of very interesting since it does not experience the late-stage nuclear interaction, therefore it is useful to explore the early-stage information of matter phase. In this work, we investigated the directed flow and elliptic flow for proton-neutron bremsstrahlung hard photons in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions. The positive directed flow and negative elliptic flow of directed photons are illustrated and they seem to be anti-correlated to the free proton's flow. Also we calculated the two-photon correlation functions from which the information of photon source was extracted, and while two-photon azimuthal correlations are presented as a good method to extract the elliptic flow parameter v2 of direct hard photons.