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Non-central heavy ion collisions generate large orbital angular momentum (OAM), providing opportunities to study spin phenomena such as the global spin alignment of vector mesons. Such studies are expected to reveal properties of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-08-27 C. W. Robertson , Yicheng Feng , Fuqiang Wang

Recent experiments at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have indicated that hadrons containing strange quarks produced in non-central heavy ion collisions can be polarized. We investigate in detail the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Joseph I. Kapusta , Ermal Rrapaj , Serge Rudaz

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

We argue that a detailed analysis of the spin alignement of vector mesons can serve as a probe of two little-understood aspects of spin dynamics in the vortical fluid: The degree of relaxation between vorticity and parton spin polarization,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-18 Kayman J. Gonçalves , Giorgio Torrieri

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

The correlation between vorticity and spin alignment in heavy-ion collisions can be probed through polarization measurements of hadrons, whose total spin originates from both constituent-quark spins and orbital angular momentum in the…

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

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

The findings on the spin polarization of $\Lambda$, $\Xi$, and $\Omega$ hyperons and spin alignment of $K^{*0}$, $\phi$, and $D^{*+}$ mesons in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments at the RHIC and LHC facilities propose the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-17 Bhagyarathi Sahoo , Captain R. Singh , Raghunath Sahoo

The significant global spin alignment observed for $\phi$ mesons in heavy-ion collisions has sparked intense discussions about its origin and implications. One explanation suggests that fluctuations in the strong force field may introduce…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-01 Diyu Shen , Jinhui Chen , Aihong Tang

A dynamical valence and sea quark mixing model is shown to fit the baryon ground state properties as well as the spin content of the nucleon. The relativistic correction and the $q^3{\leftrightarrow} q^3q\bar{q}$ transition terms induced by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Di Qing , Xiang-Song Chen , Fan Wang

We estimate both the polarization of spin $1/2$ baryons and the spin density matrix coefficients of spin $1$ mesons using a thermal model that incorporates vorticity and polarization to describe quarks, along with a coalescence formalism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-23 Kayman J. Gonçalves , Giorgio Torrieri , Radoslaw Ryblewski

The vector meson $\rho$ in the presence of external magnetic field has been investigated in the framework of the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model, where mesons are constructed by infinite sum of quark-loop chains by using random phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Hao Liu , Lang Yu , Mei Huang

The spin alignment of vector meson produced in high energy reactions is determined by the spin-dependent fragmentation function $D_{1LL} (z,\mu_f)$ that is shown to be independent of the polarization of the fragmenting quark. In this paper,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Kai-bao Chen , Zuo-tang Liang , Yu-kun Song , Shu-yi Wei

The observation of the vector meson's global spin alignment by the STAR Collaboration reveals that strong spin correlations may exist for quarks and antiquarks in relativistic heavy-ion collisions in the normal direction of the reaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-27 Ji-peng Lv , Zi-han Yu , Zuo-tang Liang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

We study the effect of center-of-mass motion and rotational corrections on hedgehog meson fields in the bosonized two-flavor Nambu \& Jona-Lasinio model. To remove the spurious motion and to restore good spin and isospin we consider a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Schleif , R. Wuensch

The $\rho\omega$--mixing generated by the isospin breaking of the current quark masses $m_{u} \neq m_{d}$ is studied within the bosonized NJL model in the gradient expansion. The resulting effective meson lagrangian naturally incorperates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 R. Friedrich , H. Reinhardt

We perform an analysis of the quark angular momentum in a light-cone representation by taking into account the effect due to the Melosh-Wigner rotation and find that there is a relativistic correction factor connecting the quark orbital…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Bo-Qiang Ma , Ivan Schmidt

Based on a generalized side-jump formalism for massless chiral fermions, which naturally takes into account the spin-orbit coupling in the scattering of two chiral fermions and the chiral vortical effect in a rotating chiral fermion matter,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Shuai Y. F. Liu , Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

We extend the calculations of the spin alignments of vector mesons in $e^+e^-$ annihilation in a recent Rapid Communication to deeply inelastic lepton-nucleon scatterings. We present the results for different mesons in the current…

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