English

Directed flow and hyperon polarization at RHIC BES from multi-fluid dynamics

Nuclear Theory 2023-12-19 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We present directed flow of protons and pions, as well as mean polarization of Λ\Lambda and Λˉ\bar\Lambda hyperons computed for Au-Au collisions at sNN=5...19.6\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=5...19.6 GeV in MUFFIN model. MUlti Fluid simulation for Fast IoN collisions, or MUFFIN, is a state-of-the-art 3-fluid dynamic model for simulating heavy-ion collisions in the region from a few to a hundred GeV center-of-mass energy. Whereas MUFFIN succeeds to reproduce basic observables in the collision energy range of interest, the slope of the directed flow at mid-rapidity is much steeper as compared to the data, it has unclear EoS dependence and final-state hadronic cascade affects this observable significantly. The excitation function of the Λ\Lambda polarization shows a significant splitting between polarizations of Λ\Lambda and Λˉ\bar\Lambda, which challenges a widespread interpretation that the splitting is affected mainly by the late-stage magnetic field.

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@article{arxiv.2312.11325,
  title  = {Directed flow and hyperon polarization at RHIC BES from multi-fluid dynamics},
  author = {Iurii Karpenko and Jakub Cimerman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.11325},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Contribution to the proceedings of Quark Matter 2023 conference (Houston, TX, 3-9 September 2023). 4 pages, 3 figures

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