Anisotropy of Low Energy Direct Photons in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

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We investigate the behavior of low energy photons radiated by the deceleration processes of two colliding nuclei in relativistic heavy ion collisions using the Wigner function approach for electromagnetic radiation fields.

• The angular distribution reveals the information of the initial geometric configurations.
• Such a property is reflected in the anisotropic parameter $v_{2}$, showing an increasing $v_{2}$ as energy decreases, which is a behavior qualitatively different from $v_{2}$ from hadrons produced in the collisions.