# Analysing direct photon spectra and elliptic flow from heavy ion collision measurements at the top RHIC energy within the integrated hydrokinetic model

## TL;DR

This paper uses the integrated HydroKinetic Model to analyze direct photon spectra and elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions at RHIC, revealing the importance of various photon sources and hadronization effects.

## Contribution

It introduces an improved modeling approach that accounts for multiple photon sources and hadronization processes, enhancing the description of experimental data.

## Key findings

- Photon elliptic flow increases towards peripheral collisions.
- Including hadronization photon radiation improves data description.
- Multiple photon sources are essential for accurate modeling.

## Abstract

The integrated HydroKinetic Model (iHKM) is applied to analyse the results of direct photon spectra and elliptic flow measurements in 200A GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC for the three centrality bins. We detect the strong centrality dependence of photon elliptic flow as $v_2(p_T)$-coefficient increases towards peripheral collisions. The photon production in the model is accumulated from the different sources along with the process of relativistic heavy ion collision developing. Those include the primary hard photons from the parton collisions at very early stage of the process, the photons generated at the pre-thermal phase of matter evolution, then thermal photons at equilibrated quark-gluon stage together with radiation displaying a confinement and, finally, from the hadron gas phase. Along the way a hadronic medium evolution is treated in two distinct, in a sense opposite, approaches: chemically equilibrated and chemically frozen system expansion. We find that similar as it was found in iHKM for the LHC energies, a description of the direct photon spectra and elliptic flows is significantly improved if an additional portion of the photon radiation, that is associated with hadronization processes, is included into consideration.