Spectator charge splitting of directed flow in heavy ion collisions

Antoni Szczurek; Andrzej Rybicki

Spectator charge splitting of directed flow in heavy ion collisions

Nuclear Theory 2013-10-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Authors: Antoni Szczurek , Andrzej Rybicki

Abstract

We estimate the effect of the spectator charge on distortion of single charged pion distributions as well as on azimuthal anisotropies in heavy ion collisions. A large electromagnetic effect on directed flow $v_1$ is predicted in good agreement with existing WA98 as well as RHIC data. This effect results in a splitting of $v_1$ for positive and negative pions. Detailed analysis of this phenomenon may provide new information on the collision dynamics.

Keywords

spectator charge directed flow heavy ion collisions charged pions azimuthal anisotropy electromagnetic effect flow splitting

Cite

@article{arxiv.1310.4076,
  title  = {Spectator charge splitting of directed flow in heavy ion collisions},
  author = {Antoni Szczurek and Andrzej Rybicki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.4076},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

7 pages, 8 figures a talk by A. Szczurek at the European Society Conference on High Energy Physics, 18-24 July 2013, Stockholm, Sweden

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