主 讲 人 ：严力    

活动时间：06月21日10时00分    

地　　点：理科二号楼B409

讲座内容：

In heavy ion collisions,the measured spectrum of direct photons at RHIC and the LHC has been found as azimuthally anisotropic as pions. In particular, a large elliptic flow of the direct photoshas been observed, which strongly contradicts theoretical predictions, leadingto the well-known “direct photon puzzle”. Although it is quite challenging inthe conventional hydrodynamical modelings to incorporate a significant photonemission anisotropy, the presence of an external magnetic field in quark-gluon plasma, could bring in a plausible solution to the puzzle.

In this work, instead of a strong magnetic field assumption which has been considered extensively, we propose the effect of weak magnetic photon emission, originated from the interplay of a weak external magnetic field and the longitudinal dynamical evolution of the quark-gluon plasma. The weak magnetic photon emission results in an extra source of photon production from the qurak-gluon plasma, with a large elliptic flow. In both cases of 0+1D Bjorken flow and 3+1D hydrodynamical evolution simulated via MUSIC, the effect of weak magnetic photon emission is verified. Given thisnovel effect, under realistic conditions with respect to heavy-ion collision scarried out at RHIC and the LHC, especially that a weak magnetic field satisfying $|eB| \ll m_\pi^2$, the experimentally measured direct photon ellipticflow can be well reproduced. Accordingly, we found that the direct photon elliptic flow provides a probe to the magnetic field at very early stages. For the top energy of RHIC collisions, right after the pre-equilibrium evolution,an estimate the upper bound of the magnetic field can be given to be a few percent of the pion mass square.

主讲人介绍：

严力，复旦大学现代物理研究所青年研究员。于2013年美国Stony BrookUniversity物理系获得博士学位。分别于2013年至2016年于法国Saclay理论物理研究和2016年至2018年在加拿大McGill大学物理系进行博士后研究工作。获得上海市“浦江人才”以及中组部青年千人计划支持。主要从事高能核物理的理论研究，包括相对重离子碰撞的唯像计算，以及QCD相结构的探索。