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The physics interpretation of the recent measurements of the spin polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is discussed. We suggest that the polarization measured in the $\Lambda$ rest frame should be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Wojciech Florkowski , Radoslaw Ryblewski

We review studies of vortical motion and the resulting global polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons in heavy-ion collisions, in particular, within 3FD model. 3FD predictions for the global midrapidity polarization in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Yu. B. Ivanov , V. D. Toneev , A. A. Soldatov

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

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

In the study of spin-polarization phenomena in heavy-ion collisions, it is typically assumed that final-state particles are polarized through thermal vorticity and shear. In this sense, polarization is a final-state effect. Here, we propose…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-19 Giuliano Giacalone , Enrico Speranza

We report our recent study on the global and local polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC-BES energies within the (3+1)-dimensional CLVisc hydrodynamics framework. We present our numerical results for the global…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-15 Xiang-Yu Wu , Cong Yi , Guang-You Qin , Shi Pu

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

In non-central relativistic heavy ion collisions, the created matter possesses a large initial orbital angular momentum. Particles produced in the collisions could be polarized globally in the direction of the orbital angular momentum due…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-15 Shaowei Lan , Zi-Wei Lin , Shusu Shi , Xu Sun

With a Yang-Mills field, stratified shear flow initial state and a high resolution (3+1)D Particle-in-Cell Relativistic (PICR) hydrodynamic model, we calculate the $\Lambda$ polarization for peripheral Au+Au collisions at RHIC energy of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Yilong Xie , Dujuan Wang , Laszlo Pal Csernai

The effect of $\Sigma^*(1385)$ baryon resonance on the time evolution of the $\Lambda$ hyperon polarization in hadronic matter is studied using a kinetic approach. This approach explicitly includes the production of the $\Sigma^*$ resonance…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-19 Haesom Sung , Che Ming Ko , Su Houng Lee

We calculate the longitudinal polarizations of hyperons in high $p_\perp$ jets in $pp$ collisions in which one of the protons is longitudinally polarized at RHIC energies using different models for the spin transfer in fragmentation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Qing-hua Xu , Chun-xiu Liu , Zuo-tang Liang

Bayesian analyses in the context of relativistic heavy-ion collisions have so far relied almost exclusively on bulk hadronic observables constructed from momentum degrees of freedom to constrain the transport properties of the quark-gluon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Sushant K. Singh , Eduardo Grossi , Francesco Becattini

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 study the polarization of particles in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at very high energy along the beam direction within a relativistic hydrodynamic framework. We show that this component of the polarization decreases much slower…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 F. Becattini , Iu. Karpenko

Time evolution of a "little bang" created in heavy ion collisions can be divided into two phases, the pre-equilibrium and hydrodynamic. At what moment the evolution becomes hydrodynamic and is there any universality in the hydrodynamic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Lublinsky , E. Shuryak

We have implemented the 3+1 dimensional CLVisc hydrodynamics model with TRENTO-3D initial conditions to investigate the spin polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons along the beam direction in p+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 8.16$ TeV.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-02 Cong Yi , Xiang-Yu Wu , Jie Zhu , Shi Pu , Guang-You Qin

We study the formation of fluid vorticity and the hyperon polarization in heavy-ion collisions at NICA energies in the framework of the Parton-Hadron-String Dynamic Model, taking into account both hadronic and quark-gluonic (partonic)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 E. E. Kolomeitsev , V. D. Toneev , V. Voronyuk

We address the issue of energy and charge dependence of global polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in peripheral $Au-Au$ collisions recently observed by the STAR collaboration at RHIC. We compare different contributions to the anomalous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 A. Sorin , O. Teryaev

The evolution of a relativistic heavy-ion collision is typically understood as a process that transmutes the initial geometry of the system into the final momentum distribution of observed hadrons, which can be described via a cumulant…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Jefferson Sousa , Jorge Noronha , Matthew Luzum

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