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The $\Lambda$ spin polarization is a crucial probe of the gradients of velocity and temperature in the quark-gluon plasma generated in heavy-ion collisions. However, it is still not systematically used to tune hydrodynamic models. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 Andrea Palermo

Fermions become polarized in a vortical fluid due to spin-vorticity coupling. The spin polarization density is proportional to the local fluid vorticity at the next-to-leading order of a gradient expansion in a quantum kinetic theory. Spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-09 Long-Gang Pang , Hannah Petersen , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

The findings on the spin polarization of $\Lambda$, $\Xi$, and $\Omega$ hyperons and spin alignment of $K^{*0}$, $\phi$, and $D^{*+}$ mesons in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments at the RHIC and LHC facilities propose the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-17 Bhagyarathi Sahoo , Captain R. Singh , Raghunath Sahoo

The polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons from relativistic flow vorticity is studied in peripheral heavy ion reactions at FAIR and NICA energies, just above the threshold of the transition to the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Previous calculations at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-12 Y. L. Xie , M. Bleicher , H. Stöcker , D. J. Wang , L. P. Csernai

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 2020-03-25 Joseph I. Kapusta , Ermal Rrapaj , Serge Rudaz

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 review the calculation of suppression of Chiral Separational and Chiral Vortical Effects for strange quarks (which allegedly yield spin polarization of $\Lambda/\bar\Lambda$-hyperons in peripheral Heavy-Ion Collisions) by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-21 Ruslan A. Abramchuk

Global polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ is calculated based on the axial vortical effect (AVE). Simulations are performed within the model of the three-fluid dynamics. Equations of state with the deconfinement transition result…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-21 Yu. B. Ivanov

Thermal vorticity in non-central Au+Au collisions at energies $7.7 \leq \sqrt{s} \leq 62.4$ GeV is calculated within the UrQMD transport model. Tracing the $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons back to their last interaction point we were…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-03 O. Vitiuk , L. Bravina , E. Zabrodin

Fluid dynamic approach is a workhorse for modelling collective dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The approach has been successful in describing various features of the momentum distributions of hadrons produced in the heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Iurii Karpenko

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

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-21 Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

We study the relaxation dynamics of the spin polarization of baryons (nucleon and $\Lambda$-baryon), in a thermal pion gas as a simple model of the hadronic phase of the QCD plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. For this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-14 Yoshimasa Hidaka , Masaru Hongo , Mikhail Stephanov , Ho-Ung Yee

We present a framework for spin dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Under the approximation of small polarization, macroscopic spin degrees of freedom decouple from the background, and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Sapna , Sushant K. Singh , David Wagner

We study the impact of the QCD critical point (CP) on the spin polarization of $\Lambda$-hyperon generated by the thermal vorticity in viscous quark gluon plasma (QGP). The equations of the relativistic causal viscous hydrodynamics have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-13 Sushant K. Singh , Jan-e Alam

Based on a generalized side-jump formalism for massless chiral fermions, which naturally takes into account the spin-orbit coupling in the scattering of two chiral fermions and the chiral vortical effect in a rotating chiral fermion matter,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Shuai Y. F. Liu , Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

Using the AMPT + MUSIC+UrQMD hybrid model, we study the global and local spin polarizations of $\Lambda$ hyperons as functions of the freeze-out temperature of the spin degree of freedom in the hadronic phase of Au+Au collisions at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-06 Yifeng Sun , Zhen Zhang , Che Ming Ko , Wenbin Zhao

Due to the presence of a large orbital angular momentum of the parton system produced at the early stage of non-central heavy-ion collisions, quarks and anti-quarks are shown to be polarized in the direction opposite to the reaction plane…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zuo-tang Liang

Spin polarization provides a novel probe of the rotational properties of the quark-gluon plasma formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. This work investigates the equation of state, particularly its transport and thermodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 De-Xian Wei

The concept of a common local spin equilibrium for both spin-1/2 and spin-1 particles is incorporated into a thermal model of particle production in heavy-ion collisions at the top RHIC energies. We show that an effective spin polarization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Soham Banerjee , Samapan Bhadury , Wojciech Florkowski , Amaresh Jaiswal , Radoslaw Ryblewski

The global polarization of $\Lambda/{\bar \Lambda}$ and the splitting of ${\bar \Lambda}-\Lambda$ polarization induced by rotation and magnetic field has been investigated in a dynamical quark model by taking into account the axial vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-02 Kun Xu , Fan Lin , Anping Huang , Mei Huang