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Azimuthal anisotropy of direct photons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v4 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The electromagnetic bremsstrahlung produced by a quark interacting with nucleons or nuclei is azimuthally asymmetric. In the light-cone dipole approach this effect is related to the orientation dependent dipole cross section. Such a radiation anisotropy is expected to contribute to the azimuthal asymmetry of direct photons in pA and AA collisions, as well as in DIS and in the production of dileptons.

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@article{arxiv.0711.3010,
  title  = {Azimuthal anisotropy of direct photons},
  author = {B. Z. Kopeliovich and H. J. Pirner and A. H. Rezaeian and Ivan Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.3010},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Equations (23), (26) and the figures are corrected, references added. The version to appear in Phys. Rev. D