Homenucl-tharXiv:2605.29383

Bayesian constraints on the transport coefficients $\eta/s$ and $\zeta/s$ from spin polarization in relativisitic heavy-ion collisions

nucl-thhep-ph2026-05v1license

Abstract

Bayesian analyses in the context of relativistic heavy-ion collisions have so far relied almost exclusively on bulk hadronic observables constructed from momentum degrees of freedom to constrain the transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma. In this work, we perform the Bayesian inference after incorporating the longitudinal spin polarization of Λ\Lambda hyperons alongside conventional bulk measurements in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02 TeV to constrain the shear and bulk viscosity to entropy density ratios, η/s\eta/s and ζ/s\zeta/s. We demonstrate that the inclusion of spin polarization, which provides complementary sensitivity to the space-time structure and vorticity of the medium, shifts the posterior distribution of ζ/s\zeta/s toward larger values, although current uncertainties do not allow a statistically significant separation at the 68% credibility level. Nevertheless, the results establish spin polarization as a valuable probe in quantitative studies of QGP transport properties and indicate that it should be incorporated in comprehensive and systematically constrained Bayesian extractions of the medium's dynamical parameters.

Comments: 35 pages, 16 figures

Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.29383,
  title  = {Bayesian constraints on the transport coefficients $\eta/s$ and $\zeta/s$ from spin polarization in relativisitic heavy-ion collisions},
  author = {Sushant K. Singh and Eduardo Grossi and Francesco Becattini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29383},
  year   = {2026}
}