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We study the relaxation time required for the alignment between the spin of a finite-mass quark/antiquark and the thermal vorticity, at finite temperature and baryon chemical potential, in the context of relativistic heavy-ion collisions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-23 Alejandro Ayala , David de la Cruz , L. A. Hernández , Jordi Salinas

We compute the relaxation time for quark/antiquark spin and thermal vorticity alignment in a quark-gluon plasma at finite temperature and quark chemical potential. We model the interaction of quark/antiquark spin with thermal vorticity as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-01 Alejandro Ayala , David de la Cruz , S. Hernández-Ortíz , L. A. Hernández , Jordi Salinas

We compute the relaxation times for massive quarks and anti-quarks to align their spins with the angular velocity in a rigidly rotating medium at finite temperature and baryon density. The rotation effects are implemented using a fermion…

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

Measurements of the net polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have stimulated much interest in how strange quarks might align their spin with the vorticity of the matter created…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Joseph I. Kapusta , Ermal Rrapaj , Serge Rudaz

We have studied the spin polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in heavy ion collisions at center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV and $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV carried out at RHIC and LHC colliders. We have calculated the mean spin…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-25 Andrea Palermo , Eduardo Grossi , Iurii Karpenko , Francesco Becattini

Based on the chiral kinetic approach using initial conditions from a multiphase transport model, we study the spin polarizations of quarks and antiquarks in non-central heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Because of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

The vorticity is a quantity defined in a relativistic fluid that describes how much a fluid element is rotating and accelerating. By measuring the spin polarization of hadrons, it was found that the quark gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-17 M. Buzzegoli

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 develop a quantum spin-density-matrix framework for heavy-quark spin dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Starting from an initial polarization induced along the magnetic-field direction, we derive the evolution equation for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 Sunil Jaiswal , Sourav Dey , Amaresh Jaiswal

In this work, we address the problem of longitudinal spin polarization of the $\Lambda$ hyperons produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We combine a relativistic kinetic-theory framework that includes spin degrees of freedom treated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-09 Soham Banerjee , Samapan Bhadury , Wojciech Florkowski , Amaresh Jaiswal , Radoslaw Ryblewski

In non-central high energy heavy ion collisions, the colliding system possesses a huge orbital angular momentum along the normal direction of the reaction plane. Due to the spin orbit interaction in the system, such a huge orbital angular…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Zuo-tang Liang

Based on the chiral kinetic equations of motion, spin polarizations of various quarks, due to the magnetic field induced by spectator protons as well as the quark-antiquark vector interaction, are studied within a partonic transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-19 Zhang-Zhu Han , Jun Xu

The hot and dense matter generated in heavy-ion collisions contains intricate vortical structure in which the local fluid vorticity can be very large. Such vorticity can polarize the spin of the produced particles. We study the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 De-Xian Wei , Wei-Tian Deng , Xu-Guang Huang

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 study of spin polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions provides insights into the angular momentum and vortical structure of the possible existence of QGP. The present study examines the global spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Bhagyarathi Sahoo , Captain R. Singh , Raghunath Sahoo

The susceptibility of finite-density QCD matter to vorticity is introduced, as an analog of magnetic susceptibility. It describes the spin polarization of quarks and antiquarks in finite-density QCD matter induced by rotation. We estimate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 A. Aristova , D. Frenklakh , A. Gorsky , D. Kharzeev

Heavy ion collisions generate strong fluid vorticty in the produced hot quark-gluon matter which could in turn induce measurable spin polarization of hadrons. We review recent progress on the vorticity formation and spin polarization in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-20 Xu-Guang Huang , Jinfeng Liao , Qun Wang , Xiao-Liang Xia

In non-central relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the produced quark-gluon plasma (QGP) behaves approximately as a rotating fluid due to the system's initial angular momentum. In this rotating fluid, the spins of quarks become polarized due…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Tianyang Li , Yunfei Fan , Anping Huang , Baoyi Chen

In hydrodynamic approach to relativistic heavy ion collisions, hadrons with nonzero spin, produced out of the hydrodynamic medium, can acquire polarization via spin-vorticity thermodynamic coupling mechanism. The hydrodynamical quantity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Iurii Karpenko , Francesco Becattini
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