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Bo-Wen Xiao1,2, Feng Yuan3, Jian Zhou4
1Key Laboratory of Quark and Lepton Physics (MOE) and Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China.
Abstract:
We investigate the azimuthal angular correlation between the lepton transverse momentum P_{⊥} and the impact parameter b_{⊥} in noncentral heavy-ion collisions, where the leptons are produced through two-photon scattering. Among the Fourier harmonic coefficients, a significant v_{4} asymmetry is found for the typical kinematics at RHIC and LHC with a mild dependence on the P_{⊥}, whereas v_{2} is power suppressed by the lepton mass over P_{⊥}. This unique prediction, if confirmed from the experiments, shall provide crucial information on the production mechanism for the dilepton in two-photon processes.
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