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In this report, we discuss the measurement of the hadronic decay modes of resonances in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, emphasizing on RHIC results. The study of resonances can provide: (1) the yield and spectra of more particles with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-08-11 Zhangbu Xu

We study the polarization of hyperon in different processes in singly polarized $pp$ collisions, in particular its relation to the polarized parton distributions. We show that by measuring hyperon polarization in particularly chosen…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-hua Xu , Zuo-tang Liang

In this note we discuss how angular distribution of the dileptons produced in heavy ion collisions at RHIC/LHC energies can provide an information about a degree of local equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma produced at different…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-06 Edward Shuryak

In 2017, STAR Collaboration reported the measurements of hyperon global polarization in heavy ion collisions, suggesting the subatomic fireball fluid created in these collisions as the most vortical fluid. There remains the interesting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-21 Yu Guo , Jinfeng Liao , Enke Wang , Hongxi Xing , Hui Zhang

The recent data on the polarization of vector meson at LEP show that the vector mesons favor the helicity zero state. We calculate the helicity density matrix of vector meson which contains a polarized fragmenting quark by adding the spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Xu Qing-hua , Liu Chun-xiu , Liang Zuo-tang

We show how the measurement of appropriately constructed particle-energy/momentum correlations allows access to the bulk viscosity of strongly interacting hadron matter in heavy ion collisions. This measurement can be performed by the LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Antonio Dobado , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Juan M. Torres-Rincon

The system created in non-central relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions possesses large orbital angular momentum. Due to spin-orbit coupling, particles produced in such a system could become globally polarized along the direction of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 STAR Collaboration , B. I. Abelev , I. Selyuzhenkov

The features of magnetic field in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are systematically studied by using a modified magnetic field model in this paper. The features of magnetic field distributions in the central point are studied in the RHIC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-28 Yang Zhong , Chunbin Yang , Xu Cai , Shengqin Feng

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

We argue that the enhancement in the spin polarization of anti-hyperons compared to the polarization of the hyperons in noncentral relativistic heavy-ion collisions arises as a result of an interplay between the chiral and helical vortical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-08 Victor E. Ambrus , M. N. Chernodub

Global polarization of hyperons induced by the local vorticity of the medium created in heavy-ion collisions at energies 2.3\,GeV$\le\sqrt{s_{NN}}\le$11.5 GeV is calculated in the parton-hadron-string dynamic (PHSD) model. The separation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-12 V. Voronyuk , E. E. Kolomeitsev , N. S. Tsegelnik

Femtoscopic measurements at a variety of facilities have established a clear dependence of spatial scales with event multiplicity and particle transverse mass ($m_T$) in heavy ion collisions from $\sqrt(s_{NN}) \sim 2-200 GeV$. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-04-24 Zbigniew Chajȩcki

The EM field pattern created by spectators in relativistic heavy-ion collisions plants a seed of positive (negative) magnetic helicity in the hemisphere above (below) the reaction plane. Owing to the chiral anomaly, the magnetic helicity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 A. H. Tang , G. Wang

Transverse $\Lambda$ polarization observed over four decades ago contradicted expectations from early leading-order perturbative QCD calculations. Measurements of $\Lambda$ polarization from unpolarized $pp$ and $p$A collisions have been…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-18 Cynthia Nunez

Polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons and their antiparticles is calculated in a 3+1 dimensional viscous hydrodynamic model with initial state from UrQMD hadron/string cascade. We find that, along with recent results from STAR, the mean…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Iu. Karpenko , F. Becattini

PHENIX has a well defined program for measuring the polarized gluon distribution in the nucleon. We measure the gluon polarization in the proton with polarized $p$-$p$ collisions at PHENIX. The measurements of gluon polarization $via$ the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Manabu Togawa

In high-energy heavy-ion collisions, the chiral magnetic effect (CME) is predicted to arise from the interplay between the chirality imbalance of quarks in the nuclear medium and the intense magnetic field, and will cause a charge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Diyu Shen , Jinhui Chen , Aihong Tang , Gang Wang

We review the current situation in polarized scattering experiments. We describe the theoretical interpretation of inclusive deep inelastic processes, the current experimental situation and perturbative analyses which extract structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard D. Ball , Hugh A. McL. Tallini

We propose a new technique for determining the spin of new massive particles that might be discovered at the Large Hadron Collider. The method relies on pair-production of the new particles in a kinematic regime where the vector boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-23 Matthew R. Buckley , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), as the world's first and only polarized proton collider, offers a unique environment in which to study the spin structure of the proton. In order to study the proton's transverse spin structure,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Aidala