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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 present an extension of relativistic single-particle distribution function for weakly interacting particles at local thermodynamical equilibrium including spin degrees of freedom, for massive spin 1/2 particles. We infer, on the basis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Becattini , V. Chandra , L. Del Zanna , E. Grossi

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

As the core ingredient for spin polarization, the local equilibrium spin distribution function is derived from the detailed balance principle. The kinetic theory for interacting fermionic systems is applied to the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Ziyue Wang , Xingyu Guo , Pengfei Zhuang

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

It is shown that the description of a relativistic fluid at local thermodynamic equilibrium depends on the particular quantum stress-energy tensor operator chosen, e.g., the canonical or symmetrized Belinfante stress-energy tensor. We argue…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-01 F. Becattini , W. Florkowski , E. Speranza

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

The linear equations for transverse spin dynamics in weakly polarised degenerate Fermi liquid with arbitrary relationship between temperature and polarization are derived from Landau-Silin phenomenological kinetic equation with general form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. P. Mineev

We revisit the spin effects induced by thermal vorticity by calculating them directly from the spin-dependent distribution functions. For the spin-1/2 particles, we give the polarization up to the first order of thermal vorticity and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-17 Jian-Hua Gao , Shi-Zheng Yang

Relativistic hydrodynamics has been quite successful in describing the properties of strongly-interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collision experiments. Recently, there has been a significant advancement in this field to explain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-03 Rajeev Singh

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 this work, we start with chiral kinetic theory and construct the spin hydrodynamic framework for a chiral spinor system. Using the 14-moment expansion formalism, we obtain the equations of motion of second-order dissipative relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-26 Shuzhe Shi , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon

First, I study the analogy between the magnetization of a material and the spin polarization of particles in a fluid. Using the relativistic version of the Barnett effect, i.e. the magnetization of a material induced by mechanical rotation,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-22 Matteo Buzzegoli

This work investigates the influence of parton spin polarization on effective transport and thermodynamic coefficients in noncentral light- and heavy-ion collisions. To model this influence, I consider two sources of spin polarization:…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 De-Xian Wei

The rotation of polarization occurs for light interacting with chiral materials. It requires the light states with opposite chiralities interact differently with the materials. We demonstrate analogous rotation of polarization also exists…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-03 Defu Hou , Shu Lin

We derive expressions for the vector and tensor components of the spin polarization of massive vector bosons at local thermodynamic equilibrium up to second order in the space-time gradients of the thermodynamic fields pertaining to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Zhong-Hua Zhang , Xu-Guang Huang , Francesco Becattini , Xin-Li Sheng

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

We derive the collision term in the Boltzmann equation using the equation of motion for the Wigner function of massive spin-1/2 particles. To next-to-lowest order in $\hbar$ it contains a nonlocal contribution, which is responsible for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Nora Weickgenannt , Enrico Speranza , Xin-li Sheng , Qun Wang , Dirk H. Rischke

We study helicity polarization through the (3+1) dimensional relativistic viscous hydrodynamic models at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$GeV Au+Au collisions. Similar to the local spin polarization, we consider the helicity polarization beyond global…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-03 Cong Yi , Shi Pu , Jian-Hua Gao , Di-Lun Yang

Spin polarization of a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction, induced by a thermo-current, is considered theoretically. It is shown that a temperature gradient gives rise to an in-plane spin polarization of the…

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