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Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have measured the net polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons and attributed it to a coupling between their spin and the vorticity of the fluid created in heavy ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Joseph I. Kapusta , Ermal Rrapaj , Serge Rudaz

We investigate the hydrodynamic helicity polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons, defined as the projection of the spin polarization vector along the directions of particle momenta, at RHIC-BES energies by utilizing the relativistic (3+1)D…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-19 Cong Yi , Xiang-Yu Wu , Di-Lun Yang , Jian-Hua Gao , Shi Pu , Guang-You Qin

Global polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons has been measured to be of the order of a few tenths of a percent in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV, with no significant difference between $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$. These new…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-08-09 J. Adam , L. Adamczyk , J. R. Adams , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , N. N. Ajitanand , I. Alekseev , D. M. Anderson , R. Aoyama , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , M. U. Ashraf , F. Atetalla , A. Attri , G. S. Averichev , X. Bai , V. Bairathi , K. Barish , A. J. Bassill , A. Behera , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , D. Brown , J. Bryslawskyj , I. Bunzarov , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón~de~la~Barca~Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , F-H. Chang , Z. Chang , N. Chankova-Bunzarova , A. Chatterjee , S. Chattopadhyay , J. H. Chen , X. Chen , X. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , W. Christie , G. Contin , H. J. Crawford , S. Das , T. G. Dedovich , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , N. Elsey , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , J. Ewigleben , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , P. Federicova , J. Fedorisin , P. Filip , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , T. Galatyuk , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. I. Hamad , A. Hamed , A. Harlenderova , J. W. Harris , L. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , N. Herrmann , A. Hirsch , L. Holub , S. Horvat , X. Huang , B. Huang , S. L. Huang , H. Z. Huang , T. Huang , T. J. Humanic , P. Huo , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jentsch , J. Jia , K. Jiang , S. Jowzaee , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , D. P. Kikoła , C. Kim , T. A. Kinghorn , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , L. Kochenda , L. K. Kosarzewski , A. F. Kraishan , L. Kramarik , L. Krauth , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , N. Kulathunga , S. Kumar , L. Kumar , J. Kvapil , J. H. Kwasizur , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , X. Li , C. Li , W. Li , Y. Li , Y. Liang , J. Lidrych , T. Lin , A. Lipiec , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , P. Liu , H. Liu , Y. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , S. Luo , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma , L. Ma , R. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , D. Mallick , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , O. Matonoha , D. Mayes , J. A. Mazer , K. Meehan , J. C. Mei , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , D. Mishra , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , D. A. Morozov , Md. Nasim , J. D. Negrete , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , S. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , D. Olvitt , B. S. Page , R. Pak , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , J. Pluta , J. Porter , M. Posik , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , A. Quintero , S. K. Radhakrishnan , S. Ramachandran , R. L. Ray , R. Reed , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , J. Schambach , A. M. Schmah , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , B. R. Schweid , F. Seck , J. Seger , M. Sergeeva , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , W. Q. Shen , F. Shen , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , S. Siejka , R. Sikora , M. Simko , S. Singha , N. Smirnov , D. Smirnov , W. Solyst , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , D. J. Stewart , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , A. A. P. Suaide , T. Sugiura , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , Y. Sun , X. Sun , X. M. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , P. Szymanski , Z. Tang , A. H. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , M. Tokarev , C. A. Tomkiel , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , O. D. Tsai , B. Tu , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , J. Vanek , A. N. Vasiliev , I. Vassiliev , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , G. Wang , Y. Wang , F. Wang , Y. Wang , J. C. Webb , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , Q. H. Xu , Z. Xu , J. Xu , Y. F. Xu , N. Xu , S. Yang , C. Yang , Q. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , Z. Zhang , L. Zhang , Y. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , S. Zhang , J. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , C. Zhou , L. Zhou , Z. Zhu , X. Zhu , M. Zyzak

The polarization of the $\Lambda$ particle offers the unique opportunity to study the hydrodynamic gradients in the Quark-Gluon Plasma formed in heavy-ion collisions. However, the theoretical formula commonly used to calculate polarization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-12 Andrea Palermo

We report the measurements of global spin polarization of hyperons ($P_{\Lambda}$) from FAIR, RHIC and LHC energies. The $P_{\Lambda}$ continue to follow an increasing trend at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm NN}}$ < 7.7 GeV indicating that enormous…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-03-22 Subhash Singha

We report a novel manifestation of spin-vorticity interplay in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Using $^{16}$O+$^{197}$Au at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=7.7$ GeV as a test case, we show that the $\Lambda$ hyperon exhibits a clear dual-polarization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-27 X. G. Deng , Y. G. Ma

Global polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons in Au+Au collisions at collision energies $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 4-40 GeV in the midrapidity region and total polarization, i.e. averaged over all rapidities, are studied within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-31 Yu. B. Ivanov , V. D. Toneev , A. A. Soldatov

Significant global polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons along the direction of the orbital angular momentum has been measured in non-central heavy-ion collisions where the equation of state (EOS) of the produced dense matter is expected to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Cong Yi , Shi Pu , Long-Gang Pang , Guang-You Qin , Xin-Nian Wang

We performed a systematic study on the formation of vorticity rings as the process for jet thermalization in the medium created in high-energy nuclear collisions. In this work, we expanded our previous analysis to a more realistic framework…

The polarization of the $\Lambda$ and $\overline{\Lambda}$ hyperons along the beam direction has been measured in proton-lead (pPb) collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 8.16 TeV. The data were obtained with the CMS…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-02 CMS 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

In heavy-ion collisions, as the two nuclei pass through one another and create hot and dense matter, part of their initial angular momentum is transferred to the fireball, generating a nonzero average vorticity. Understanding heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-14 Oleh Savchuk , Pawel Danielewicz , Daniel Kincses , Agnieszka Sorensen

Global polarization of hyperons induced by the local vorticity of the medium created in heavy-ion collisions at energies 2.3\,GeV$\le\sqrt{s_{NN}}\le$11.5 GeV is calculated in the parton-hadron-string dynamic (PHSD) model. The separation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-12 V. Voronyuk , E. E. Kolomeitsev , N. S. Tsegelnik

Based on the three-fluid model, the global $\Lambda$ polarization in Au+Au collisions at 2.4 $\leq\sqrt{s_{NN}}\leq$ 7.7 GeV is calculated, including its rapidity and centrality dependence. Contributions from the thermal vorticity and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Yu. B. Ivanov , A. A. Soldatov

The polarization of the $\Lambda$ and $\overline\Lambda$ hyperons along the beam ($z$) direction, $P_{\rm z}$, has been measured in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 5.02TeV recorded with ALICE at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-12-06 ALICE Collaboration

We study the generation and space-time evolution of fluid acceleration in heavy-ion collisions using AMPT and UrQMD transport models combined with a Gaussian smearing method. The peak proper acceleration reaches several hundred MeV, with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Song-Ze Zhong , Xian-Gai Deng , Xu-Guang Huang , Yu-Gang Ma

Based on the model of three-fluid dynamics (3FD), the global $\Lambda$ polarization ($P_\Lambda$) is calculated in Au+Au collisions at 3 $\leq\sqrt{s_{NN}}\leq$ 9 GeV, in which high baryon density is achieved. Various contributions to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 Yu. B. Ivanov

The fluidity of the hot and dense QCD matter is a key characteristic of the medium created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We extend the framework of the relativistic hydrodynamic model to incorporate non-thermal momentum distributions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 Akihiko Monnai

We systematically study the hyperon global polarization's sensitivity to the collision systems' initial longitudinal flow velocity in hydrodynamic simulations. By explicitly imposing local energy-momentum conservation when mapping the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Sangwook Ryu , Vahidin Jupic , Chun Shen

The system created in non-central relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions possesses large orbital angular momentum. Due to spin-orbit coupling, particles produced in such a system could become globally polarized along the direction of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 STAR Collaboration , B. I. Abelev , I. Selyuzhenkov