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The azimuthal angle dependence of quark spin polarization in the longitudinal beam direction of non-central relativistic heavy ion collisions is studied in the chiral kinetic approach. Contrary to the prediction from models based on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, a global spin polarization, $P_\mathrm{H}$, of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons along the direction of the system angular momentum was discovered and measured across a broad range of collision…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-08-09 The STAR Collaboration

The spin polarization measurements of particles emitted in heavy-ion collisions have opened the possibility for new phenomenological investigations of spin physics in relativistic fluids. The theoretical predictions of global polarization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-13 M. Buzzegoli , F. Becattini , G. Inghirami , I. Karpenko , A. Palermo

The polarizations of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons are important quantities in extracting the fluid vorticity of the strongly coupled quark gluon plasma and the magnitude of the magnetic field created in off-central heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-01 Hui Li , Long-Gang Pang , Qun Wang , Xiao-Liang Xia

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions give rise to the formation of both deconfined QCD matter and a strong magnetic field. The spin of heavy quarks is influenced by interactions with the external magnetic field as well as by random scatterings…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-18 Zhiwei Liu , Yunfan Bai , Shiqi Zheng , Anping Huang , Baoyi Chen

The strongly interacting system created in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions behaves almost as an ideal fluid with rich patterns of the velocity field exhibiting strong vortical structure. Vorticity of the fluid, via spin-orbit coupling,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-10-30 Takafumi Niida , Sergei A. Voloshin

We study helicity polarization through the (3+1) dimensional relativistic viscous hydrodynamic models at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$GeV Au+Au collisions. Similar to the local spin polarization, we consider the helicity polarization beyond global…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-03 Cong Yi , Shi Pu , Jian-Hua Gao , Di-Lun Yang

Since its discovery, global polarization of the $\Lambda$ hyperon in heavy-ion collisions has been firmly established and is widely attributed to the large vorticity generated in the rotating quark-gluon plasma. In contrast, nearly fifty…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Feng Liu , Zhoudunming Tu

We calculate the linear and circular polarization of gluons produced in conjunction with massive quarks in the annihilation process $e^+e^-\to q \bar q G$. The linear polarization is calculated in the hadron event plane as well as in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 S. Groote , J. G. Körner , J. A. Leyva

Possible correlations of the global polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons with the angular momentum and transverse flow in the central region of colliding nuclei are studied based on refined estimate of the global polarization. Simulations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-31 Yu. B. Ivanov , A. A. Soldatov

Relativistic p+A collisions may produce droplets of quark gluon plasma (QGP) that quickly develop a toroidal vortex structure similar to that of an expanding smoke ring. We present viscous relativistic hydrodynamic calculations of…

Gluinos are produced pairwise at the LHC in quark-antiquark and gluon-gluon collisions: $qqbar,gg \to \tilde{g} \tilde{g}$. While the individual polarization of gluinos vanishes in the limit in which the small mass difference between L and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-07 M. Krämer , E. Popenda , M. Spira , P. M. Zerwas

We study the directed flow of identified particles in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\text{NN}}=7.7$ to 62.4 GeV. The Glauber model is extended to include both a tilted deformation of the QGP fireball with respect to the longitudinal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-10 Ze-Fang Jiang , Xiang-Yu Wu , Shanshan Cao , Ben-Wei Zhang

We study the energy dependence of global polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in peripheral $Au-Au$ collisions. We combine the calculation of vorticity and strange chemical potential in the framework of kinetic Quark-Gluon String Model with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-25 Mircea Baznat , Konstantin Gudima , Alexander Sorin , Oleg Teryaev

We study the polarization of particles in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at very high energy along the beam direction within a relativistic hydrodynamic framework. We show that this component of the polarization decreases much slower…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 F. Becattini , Iu. Karpenko

The global spin polarization of hyperons in heavy-ion collisions have been investigated by including spin correlation effects among their constituent quarks. The available data on global spin polarizations of hyperons and spin alignments of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-12 Lucia Oliva , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

Polarization has opened a new physics chapter in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Since the first prediction and experimental observation of global spin polarization, a lot of progress has been made in understanding its features, both at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-08 Francesco Becattini , Matteo Buzzegoli , Takafumi Niida , Shi Pu , Ai-Hong Tang , Qun Wang

In non-central nuclear collisions, the created matter should exhibit strong vorticity, which induces spin polarization. Global polarization is a good tool to investigate the dynamics of the system. Global polarization of $\Lambda$ and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-02-16 Kosuke Okubo

Recent measurements at RHIC suggest that a nearly perfect fluid of quarks and gluons is produced in AA collisions. Moreover the passage of supersonic partons through this medium seems to produce waves. These waves might pile up and form…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-25 D. A. Fogaça , L. G. Ferreira Filho , F. S. Navarra

We report our recent study on the global and local polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC-BES energies within the (3+1)-dimensional CLVisc hydrodynamics framework. We present our numerical results for the global…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-15 Xiang-Yu Wu , Cong Yi , Guang-You Qin , Shi Pu