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The proton is a composite object with spin one-half, understood to contain highly relativistic spin one-half quarks exchanging spin-one gluons, each possibly with significant orbital angular momenta. While their fundamental interactions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-01 M. Burkardt , C. A. Miller , W. -D. Nowak

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 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

I will summarize the physics that can be investigated with polarized pp collisions. It is technically feasible to use the RHIC collider for accelerating highly polarized protons to a center-of-mass energy of about 400 GeV, with high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 John C. Collins

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

Based on the formalism presented in [1], we make a systematic study of spin polarizations of hadrons with different spins including vector mesons, spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 hyperons and spin correlations of hadron-hadron such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Ji-peng Lv , Zi-han Yu , Xiao-wen Li , Zuo-tang Liang

The system created in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions is known to behave as an almost ideal liquid. In non-central collisions, due to the large orbital momentum, such a system might be the fluid with the highest vorticity ever created…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-16 F. Becattini , I. Karpenko , M. Lisa , I. Upsal , S. Voloshin

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions create hot quark-gluon plasma as well as very strong electromagnetic (EM) and fluid vortical fields. The strong EM field and vorticity can induce intriguing macroscopic quantum phenomena such as chiral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-26 Yu-Chen Liu , Xu-Guang Huang

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

It has been proposed that the $\Lambda$ and $\overline{\Lambda}$ polarizations observed in heavy-ion collisions are due to the interaction between quark spin and thermal vorticity. In this work we report on a computation of the relaxation…

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

In this paper, current-induced spin polarization for two-dimensional electron gas with a general spin-orbit interaction is investigated. For isotropic energy spectrum, the in-plane current-induced spin polarization is found to be dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. M. Wang , H. T. Cui , Q. Lin

We propose a new mechanism of generating spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions dominated by nucleon degree of freedom. By incorporating the spin change in nucleon-nucleon scatterings based on the phase shift data together with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Rong-Jun Liu , Jun Xu , Yu-Gang Ma

Top quark pairs are produced with strongly correlated spins in the partonic reactions $q\bar{q}\to t\bar{t}$ and $gg\to t\bar{t}$. A complete description of these effects in terms of the spin density matrix of the $t\bar{t}$ system in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Arnd Brandenburg

Despite the success of the spin-thermalized assumption in explaining hyperon spin polarizations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, challenges begin to arise especially at lower collision energies. The present study compares the nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-02 Jun Xu

Spin effects in the tunneling regime of strong field ionization of hydrogenlike highly charged ions in linearly as well as circularly polarized laser fields are investigated. The impact of the polarization of a laser field on the spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Enderalp Yakaboylu , Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan

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

Incorporating for the first time both the spin and isospin degrees of freedom explicitly in transport model simulations of intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions, we observe that a local spin polarization appears during collision process.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-09 Jun Xu , Bao-An Li

We have developed a novel technique for detection of spin polarization with a quantum dot weakly coupled to the objective device. The disturbance to the object in this technique is very small since the detection is performed through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Sunwoo Kim , Yoshiaki Hashimoto , Taketomo Nakamura , Shingo Katsumoto

We review recent theoretical and experimental developments in spin dynamics and polarization phenomena in relativistic systems, with a particular focus on heavy-ion collisions. The large angular momentum and magnetic field generated in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Sourav Dey , Arpan Das , Hiranmaya Mishra , Amaresh Jaiswal

We investigate the spin alignment of vector mesons arising from locally polarized quarks and anti-quarks (local spin alignment) in heavy-ion collisions. We find that $\rho_{00}\neq 1/3$ does not necessarily signal the global polarization of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-30 Xiao-Liang Xia , Hui Li , Xu-Guang Huang , Huan Zhong Huang