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The STAR Beam Energy Scan program has found a difference in the global polarization of $\Lambda$s and $\bar{\Lambda}$s produced in $Au+Au$ collisions. This difference is larger for lower center of mass collision energies. In this work we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-27 A. Ayala , E. Cuautle , I. Domínguez , I. Maldonado , J. Salinas , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

We compute the $\Lambda$ and $\overline{\Lambda}$ global polarizations in semi-central heavy-ion collisions using the core-corona model where the source of $\Lambda$'s and $\overline{\Lambda}$'s is taken as consisting of a high-density core…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-28 Alejandro Ayala , Isabel Domínguez , Ivonne Maldonado , María Elena Tejeda-Yeomans

We report on work aimed to describe the $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ global polarizations in a heavy-ion collision environment using the core-corona model, where the source of these hyperons is a high-density core and a less dense corona.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-22 Alejandro Ayala , Isabel Domínguez , Ivonne Maldonado , Maria Elena Tejeda-Yeomans

We report on the core-corona model developed to describe the main features of hyperon global polarization in semicentral relativistic heavy-ion collisions as a function of the collision energy. We first neglect the contribution to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-19 Alejandro Ayala , Isabel Domínguez , Ivonne Maldonado , María Elena Tejeda-Yeomans

An important observable to understand the properties of the matter produced in heavy-ion collisions is its strangeness content. Recent experimental results show that in semi-central collisions, the $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ global…

We compute the excitation function of the global $\Lambda$ polarization in semicentral heavy-ion collisions within a Core--Corona framework, where the interaction region is described as a dense core and a dilute corona separated by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Alejandro Ayala , José Jorge Medina Serna , Isabel Domínguez , María Elena Tejeda-Yeomans

Large orbital angular momentum can be generated in non-central heavy-ion collisions, and part of it is expected to be converted into final particle's polarization due to the spin-orbit coupling. Within the framework of A Multi-Phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-08 Xiao-Liang Xia , Hui Li , Qun Wang

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

STAR collaboration at RHIC has recently measured the polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in non-central heavy ion collisions in the RHIC Beam Energy Scan (BES) program. The magnitude of the polarization was found to decrease from few…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Iurii Karpenko , Francesco Becattini

We predict the polarization of Lambda and antiLambda hyperons in peripheral heavy ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energy, based on the assumption of local thermodynamical equilibrium at freeze-out. The polarization vector is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-11-21 F. Becattini , L. Csernai , D. J. Wang

In non-central heavy-ion collisions, a large orbital angular momentum of the colliding system is produced, which is then partially transferred to the created medium, resulting in the particle polarization on average along the initial…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-10-30 Takafumi Niida

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

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

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

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Ilya Selyuzhenkov

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

Simple geometrical considerations show that the collision zone in high energy nuclear collisions may be divided into a central part (``core''), with high energy densities, and a peripheral part (``corona''), with smaller energy densities,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Klaus Werner

We calculate the contribution to the polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in relativistic nuclear collisions at high energy from the decays of $\Sigma^*(1385)$ and $\Sigma^0$, which are the predominant sources of $\Lambda$ production besides…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 F. Becattini , Gaoqing Cao , Enrico Speranza

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

With a Yang-Mills flux-tube initial state and a high resolution (3+1)D Particle-in-Cell Relativistic (PICR) hydrodynamics simulation, we calculate the $\Lambda$ polarization for different energies. The origination of polarization in high…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-16 Yilong Xie , Dujuan Wang , László P. Csernai

New results on global polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV reveal non-zero signal on the order of a few tenths of a percent. Compared with lower energy results, the current measurement shows…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Takafumi Niida
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