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Polarization has opened a new physics chapter in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Since the first prediction and experimental observation of global spin polarization, a lot of progress has been made in understanding its features, both at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-08 Francesco Becattini , Matteo Buzzegoli , Takafumi Niida , Shi Pu , Ai-Hong Tang , Qun Wang

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

We investigate the spacetime evolution of spin polarization within a hydrodynamic framework based on the de Groot--van Leeuwen--van Weert expressions for energy-momentum and spin tensors. The system's deviation from boost invariance results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-18 Wojciech Florkowski , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Rajeev Singh

We use a thermal model with single freeze-out to determine longitudinal polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons emitted from a hot and rotating hadronic medium. We consider the top RHIC energies and use the model parameters determined in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Wojciech Florkowski , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Aleksas Mazeliauskas

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 study the longitudinal spin polarization of a relativistic fluid of massive spin-1/2 particles undergoing a boost-invariant expansion in the longitudinal direction and rotating in the transverse plane. We express the polarization vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Nora Weickgenannt , Jean-Paul Blaizot

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

Motivated by the key role of shear induced polarization in understanding the local spin polarization puzzle of $\Lambda$ hyperons in heavy ion collisions, we perform a complete analysis of spin polarization of massive fermion in a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-02 Ziyue Wang , Shu Lin

We have revisited the spin dynamics in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions based on the improved spin- and isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport model, particularly with the constraint of rigorous angular momentum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-18 Rong-Jun Liu , Jun Xu

Space-time evolution of spin polarization within the framework of hydrodynamics with spin based on de Groot - van Leeuwen - van Weert forms of energy-momentum and spin tensors is studied. Due to the non-boost invariant flow in the system…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-10 Wojciech Florkowski , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Rajeev Singh , Gabriel Sophys

We revisit the azimuthal angle dependence of the local spin polarization of hyperons in heavy-ion collisions at 200 GeV in the framework of the (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic model CLVisc. Two different initial conditions are considered in our…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-06 Hong-Zhong Wu , Long-Gang Pang , Xu-Guang Huang , Qun Wang

In this work, we briefly review the progress made in the formulation of hydrodynamics with spin with emphasis on the application to the relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In particular, we discuss the formulation of hydrodynamics with spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-29 Samapan Bhadury , Jitesh Bhatt , Amaresh Jaiswal , Avdhesh Kumar

The extreme temperatures and energy densities generated by ultra-relativistic collisions between heavy nuclei produce a state of matter with surprising fluid properties. Non-central collisions have angular momentum on the order of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-08-29 STAR Collaboration

Recent experimental data show an unexpectedly large spin alignment of $\phi$ mesons in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, which can be explained by short-distance fluctuations of strong-force fields (vector $\phi$ fields) within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-16 Xin-Li Sheng , Xiang-Yu Wu , Dirk H. Rischke , Xin-Nian Wang

We perform a systematic study on the local and global spin polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\overline{\Lambda}$ hyperons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at beam energy scan energies via the (3+1)-dimensional CLVisc hydrodynamics model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-28 Xiang-Yu Wu , Cong Yi , Guang-You Qin , Shi Pu

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

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

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

We present a systematic study of $\Lambda$ hyperon's polarization observables using event-by-event (3+1)D relativistic hydrodynamics. The effects of initial hot spot size and QGP's specific shear viscosity on the polarization observables…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 Sahr Alzhrani , Sangwook Ryu , Chun Shen

We calculated the azimuthal angle dependence of the local spin polarization of hyperons in 200 GeV Au+Au and 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions in the framework of the (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic model CLVisc with AMPT initial conditions encoding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Hong-Zhong Wu , Long-Gang Pang , Xu-Guang Huang , Qun Wang