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Vorticity in the QGP liquid and $\Lambda$ polarization at the RHIC Beam Energy Scan

Nuclear Theory 2018-03-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Polarization of Λ\Lambda hyperons and their antiparticles is calculated in a 3+1 dimensional viscous hydrodynamic model with initial state from UrQMD hadron/string cascade. We find that, along with recent results from STAR, the mean polarization at fixed centrality decreases as a function of collision energy from 1.5% at sNN=7.7\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=7.7 GeV to 0.2% at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=200 GeV. We explore the effects which lead to such collision energy dependence, feed-down corrections and a difference between Λ\Lambda and Λˉ\bar\Lambda.

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@article{arxiv.1704.02142,
  title  = {Vorticity in the QGP liquid and $\Lambda$ polarization at the RHIC Beam Energy Scan},
  author = {Iu. Karpenko and F. Becattini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02142},
  year   = {2018}
}

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contribution to proceedings of Quark Matter 2017, 5-11 February 2017, Chicago (IL)