Abstract
In high-energy heavy-ion collisions, the magnetic field is very strong right after the nuclei penetrate each other and a nonequilibrium system of quarks and gluons builds up. Even though quarks might not be very abundant initially, their dynamics must necessarily be influenced by the Lorentz force. Employing the (3+1)-d partonic cascade Boltzmann approach to multiparton scatterings (BAMPS), we show that the circular Larmor movement of the quarks leads to a strong positive anisotropic flow of quarks at very soft transverse momenta. We explore the regions where the effect is visible and explicitly show how collisions damp the effect. As a possible application, we look at photon production from the flowing nonequilibrium medium.
4 More- Received 28 April 2017
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.014903
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