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Global and local polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons across RHIC-BES energies

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

Lambda Polarization in an Exact Rotating and Expanding fluid dynamical model for peripheral heavy ion reactions

We calculate the Lambda polarization in an exact analytical, rotating model based on parameters extracted from a high resolution (3+1)D Particle-in-Cell Relativistic hydrodynamics calculation. The polarization is attributed to effects from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 Yilong Xie , Robert C. Glastad , Laszlo P. Csernai

Study of Lambda polarization in relativistic nuclear collisions at sqrt{s}_NN = 7.7-200 GeV

We present a calculation of the global polarization of Lambda hyperons in relativistic Au-Au collisions at RHIC Beam Energy Scan range sqrt{s}_NN = 7.7 - 200 GeV with a 3+1 dimensional cascade + viscous hydro + cascade model, UrQMD+vHLLE.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-07 Iu. Karpenko , F. Becattini

Global polarization and spin alignment measurements

Recent experimental results on global polarization of hyperons and spin alignment of vector mesons in heavy-ion collisions are reviewed, especially in context of the energy dependence and particle species dependence. New results on local…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-04-08 Takafumi Niida

A study of vorticity formation in high energy nuclear collisions

We present a quantitative study of vorticity formation in peripheral ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at sqrt(s)NN = 200 GeV by using the ECHO-QGP numerical code, implementing relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics in the causal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 F. Becattini , G. Inghirami , V. Rolando , A. Beraudo , L. Del Zanna , A. De Pace , M. Nardi , G. Pagliara , V. Chandra

Causal Viscous Hydrodynamics for Central Heavy-Ion Collisions

We study causal viscous hydrodynamics in the context of central relativistic heavy-ion collisions and provide details of a straightforward numerical algorithm to solve the hydrodynamic equations. It is shown that correlation functions of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rudolf Baier , Paul Romatschke

Hyperon polarization along the beam direction relative to the second and third harmonic event planes in isobar collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV

The polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons along the beam direction has been measured relative to the second and third harmonic event planes in isobar Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV. This is the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-11-21 STAR Collaboration , M. I. Abdulhamid , B. E. Aboona , J. Adam , J. R. Adams , G. Agakishiev , I. Aggarwal , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , A. Aitbaev , I. Alekseev , D. M. Anderson , A. Aparin , S. Aslam , J. Atchison , G. S. Averichev , V. Bairathi , W. Baker , J. G. Ball Cap , K. Barish , P. Bhagat , A. Bhasin , S. Bhatta , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , X. Z. Cai , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , D. Cebra , J. Ceska , I. Chakaberia , B. K. Chan , Z. Chang , A. Chatterjee , D. Chen , J. Chen , J. H. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , Y. Cheng , S. Choudhury , W. Christie , X. Chu , H. J. Crawford , G. Dale-Gau , A. Das , M. Daugherity , T. G. Dedovich , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , A. Dhamija , L. Di Carlo , P. Dixit , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , E. Duckworth , J. C. Dunlop , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , A. Ewigleben , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , C. J. Feng , Y. Feng , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , F. A. Flor , C. Fu , T. Gao , F. Geurts , N. Ghimire , A. Gibson , K. Gopal , X. Gou , D. Grosnick , A. Gupta , A. Hamed , Y. Han , M. D. Harasty , J. W. Harris , H. Harrison-Smith , W. He , X. H. He , Y. He , C. Hu , Q. Hu , Y. Hu , H. Huang , H. Z. Huang , S. L. Huang , T. Huang , X. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , T. J. Humanic , D. Isenhower , M. Isshiki , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jalotra , C. Jena , Y. Ji , J. Jia , C. Jin , X. Ju , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , M. L. Kabir , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , M. Kelsey , B. Kimelman , A. Kiselev , A. G. Knospe , H. S. Ko , L. Kochenda , A. A. Korobitsin , P. Kravtsov , L. Kumar , S. Kumar , R. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , N. Lewis , C. Li , W. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Y. Li , Z. Li , X. Liang , Y. Liang , T. Lin , C. Liu , F. Liu , G. Liu , H. Liu , H. Liu , L. Liu , T. Liu , X. Liu , Y. Liu , Z. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , O. Lomicky , R. S. Longacre , E. M. Loyd , T. Lu , N. S. Lukow , X. F. Luo , V. B. Luong , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , D. Mallick , S. Margetis , H. S. Matis , J. A. Mazer , G. McNamara , K. Mi , N. G. Minaev , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , D. A. Morozov , A. Mudrokh , M. I. Nagy , A. S. Nain , J. D. Nam , M. Nasim , D. Neff , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , R. Nishitani , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , S. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , K. Okubo , B. S. Page , R. Pak , J. Pan , A. Pandav , A. K. Pandey , Y. Panebratsev , T. Pani , P. Parfenov , A. Paul , C. Perkins , B. R. Pokhrel , M. Posik , T. Protzman , N. K. Pruthi , J. Putschke , Z. Qin , H. Qiu , A. Quintero , C. Racz , S. K. Radhakrishnan , N. Raha , R. L. Ray , H. G. Ritter , C. W. Robertson , O. V. Rogachevsky , M. A. Rosales Aguilar , D. Roy , L. Ruan , A. K. Sahoo , N. R. Sahoo , H. Sako , S. Salur , E. Samigullin , S. Sato , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , J. Seger , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , T. Shao , M. Sharma , N. Sharma , R. Sharma , S. R. Sharma , A. I. Sheikh , D. Shen , D. Y. Shen , K. Shen , S. S. Shi , Y. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , F. Si , J. Singh , S. Singha , P. Sinha , M. J. Skoby , Y. Söhngen , Y. Song , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , D. J. Stewart , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , Y. Su , C. Sun , X. Sun , Y. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , Z. W. Sweger , A. Tamis , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , M. V. Tokarev , C. A. Tomkiel , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , O. D. Tsai , C. Y. Tsang , Z. Tu , J. Tyler , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , A. N. Vasiliev , V. Verkest , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , F. Wang , G. Wang , J. S. Wang , J. Wang , X. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Z. Wang , J. C. Webb , P. C. Weidenkaff , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , G. Wilks , S. W. Wissink , J. Wu , J. Wu , X. Wu , X. Wu , Y. Wu , B. Xi , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , Z. Xu , G. Yan , Z. Yan , C. Yang , Q. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , Y. Yu , W. Zha , C. Zhang , D. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , W. Zhang , X. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. J. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , M. Zhao , C. Zhou , J. Zhou , S. Zhou , Y. Zhou , X. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

Exact spin polarization of massive and massless particles in relativistic fluids at global equilibrium

We present the exact form of the spin polarization vector and the spin density matrix of massive and massless free particles of any spin and helicity at general global equilibrium in a relativistic fluid with non-vanishing thermal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-16 Andrea Palermo , Francesco Becattini

Global polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV

Global polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons has been measured to be of the order of a few tenths of a percent in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV, with no significant difference between $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$. These new…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-08-09 J. Adam , L. Adamczyk , J. R. Adams , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , N. N. Ajitanand , I. Alekseev , D. M. Anderson , R. Aoyama , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , M. U. Ashraf , F. Atetalla , A. Attri , G. S. Averichev , X. Bai , V. Bairathi , K. Barish , A. J. Bassill , A. Behera , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , D. Brown , J. Bryslawskyj , I. Bunzarov , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón~de~la~Barca~Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , F-H. Chang , Z. Chang , N. Chankova-Bunzarova , A. Chatterjee , S. Chattopadhyay , J. H. Chen , X. Chen , X. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , W. Christie , G. Contin , H. J. Crawford , S. Das , T. G. Dedovich , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , N. Elsey , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , J. Ewigleben , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , P. Federicova , J. Fedorisin , P. Filip , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , T. Galatyuk , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. I. Hamad , A. Hamed , A. Harlenderova , J. W. Harris , L. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , N. Herrmann , A. Hirsch , L. Holub , S. Horvat , X. Huang , B. Huang , S. L. Huang , H. Z. Huang , T. Huang , T. J. Humanic , P. Huo , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jentsch , J. Jia , K. Jiang , S. Jowzaee , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , D. P. Kikoła , C. Kim , T. A. Kinghorn , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , L. Kochenda , L. K. Kosarzewski , A. F. Kraishan , L. Kramarik , L. Krauth , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , N. Kulathunga , S. Kumar , L. Kumar , J. Kvapil , J. H. Kwasizur , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , X. Li , C. Li , W. Li , Y. Li , Y. Liang , J. Lidrych , T. Lin , A. Lipiec , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , P. Liu , H. Liu , Y. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , S. Luo , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma , L. Ma , R. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , D. Mallick , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , O. Matonoha , D. Mayes , J. A. Mazer , K. Meehan , J. C. Mei , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , D. Mishra , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , D. A. Morozov , Md. Nasim , J. D. Negrete , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , S. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , D. Olvitt , B. S. Page , R. Pak , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , J. Pluta , J. Porter , M. Posik , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , A. Quintero , S. K. Radhakrishnan , S. Ramachandran , R. L. Ray , R. Reed , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , J. Schambach , A. M. Schmah , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , B. R. Schweid , F. Seck , J. Seger , M. Sergeeva , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , W. Q. Shen , F. Shen , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , S. Siejka , R. Sikora , M. Simko , S. Singha , N. Smirnov , D. Smirnov , W. Solyst , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , D. J. Stewart , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , A. A. P. Suaide , T. Sugiura , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , Y. Sun , X. Sun , X. M. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , P. Szymanski , Z. Tang , A. H. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , M. Tokarev , C. A. Tomkiel , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , O. D. Tsai , B. Tu , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , J. Vanek , A. N. Vasiliev , I. Vassiliev , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , G. Wang , Y. Wang , F. Wang , Y. Wang , J. C. Webb , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , Q. H. Xu , Z. Xu , J. Xu , Y. F. Xu , N. Xu , S. Yang , C. Yang , Q. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , Z. Zhang , L. Zhang , Y. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , S. Zhang , J. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , C. Zhou , L. Zhou , Z. Zhu , X. Zhu , M. Zyzak

Viscous Hydrodynamics and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

The matter created in relativistic heavy ion collisions is fairly well described by ideal hydrodynamics, and somewhat better described by viscous hydrodynamics. To this point, most viscous calculations have been two-dimensional, based on an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Joshua Vredevoogd , Scott Pratt

Probing vorticity structure in heavy-ion collisions by local $\Lambda$ polarization

We study the local structure of the vorticity field and the $\Lambda$ polarization in Au+Au collisions in the energy range $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=7.7$--$200$ GeV and Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2760$ GeV using A Multi-Phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-13 Xiao-Liang Xia , Hui Li , Zebo Tang , Qun Wang

Hydrodynamic description of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Relativistic hydrodynamics has been extensively applied to high energy heavy-ion collisions. We review hydrodynamic calculations for Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies and provide a comprehensive comparison between the model and experimental…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter F. Kolb , Ulrich Heinz

Estimating Longitudinal Polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ Hyperons at Relativistic Energies using Hydrodynamic and Transport models

The global and local spin polarization measurements of $\Lambda$ ($\bar{\Lambda}$) hyperons by STAR and ALICE Collaborations open up an immense interest in investigating the spin polarization dynamics in heavy-ion collisions. Recent studies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-30 Bhagyarathi Sahoo , Captain R. Singh , Raghunath Sahoo

Is Hyperon Polarization in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions Connected to Axial U(1) Symmetry Breaking at High Temperature?

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

Polarization probes of vorticity in heavy ion collisions

We discuss the information that can be deduced from a measurement of particle (hyperon or vector meson) polarization in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. We describe the sensitivity of polarization to initial conditions, hydrodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Barbara Betz , Miklos Gyulassy , Giorgio Torrieri

Helical Fluid and (Hall)-MHD Turbulence: a Brief Review

Helicity, a measure of the breakage of reflectional symmetry representing the topology of turbulent flows, contributes in a crucial way to their dynamics and to their fundamental statistical properties. We review several of their main…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Annick Pouquet , Nobumitsu Yokoi

Vorticity and hyperon polarization at NICA energies

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

Polarized baryon production in heavy ion collisions: an analytic hydrodynamical study

We utilize known exact analytic solutions of perfect fluid hydrodynamics to analytically calculate the polarization of baryons produced in heavy ion collisions. Assuming local thermodynamical equilibrium also for spin degrees of freedom,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-22 Balint Boldizsar , Marton I. Nagy , Mate Csanad

Global $\Lambda$ hyperon polarization in low-energy heavy ion collisions -- a scenario without vorticity

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

Hydrodynamic Modeling for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC and the LHC

In this article, we briefly review recent progress on hydrodynamic modeling and its implementations to relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. The related topics include: 1) initial state fluctuations, final state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-01-03 Huichao Song