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We present a construction of the reaction amplitude for the inclusive production of a resonance decaying to a pair of identical vector particles such as $J/\psi J/\psi$, $\rho\rho$, $\phi\phi$. The method provides the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-18 Liupan An , Ronan McNulty , Mikhail Mikhasenko

We study in perturbative QCD the helicity ampltiudes of the process $\gamma^{*} p \to \rho p $ at large virtualities $Q$ of the photon $\gamma^{*}$. We estimate all spin flip amplitudes taking into account an important effect of the scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Yu. Ivanov , R. Kirschner

Spin observables may reveal much deeper properties of non perturbative hadronic physics than unpolarized quantities. We discuss the polarization of hadrons produced in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at LEP. We show how final state $q \bar q$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Mauro Anselmino

We give a brief review on the spin alignment induced by the strong field and the shear-stress tensor. In experiments, a significant positive deviation from 1/3 is observed for the $\phi$ meson, which can be explained by the anisotropy of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-08 Xin-Li Sheng , Qun Wang

Global spin alignment of vector mesons is a sensitive probe of system vorticity and particle production mechanism in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The measurement of global spin alignment is gaining increasing interest and deserves…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-25 A. H. Tang , B. Tu , C. S. Zhou

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

Measurements of global spin alignment of vector mesons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions can provide unique insights into spin-orbit interactions and vector meson dynamics in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) produced in those collisions. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-02-19 C. W. Robertson , Yicheng Feng , Fuqiang 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

We study the spin alignment of neutral rho mesons in a pion gas using spin kinetic or Boltzmann equations. The $\rho\pi\pi$ coupling is given by the chiral effective theory. The collision terms at the leading and next-to-leading order in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-07 Yi-Liang Yin , Wen-Bo Dong , Jin-Yi Pang , Shi Pu , Qun Wang

Based on the formalism presented in [1], we make a systematic study of spin polarizations of hadrons with different spins including vector mesons, spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 hyperons and spin correlations of hadron-hadron such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Ji-peng Lv , Zi-han Yu , Xiao-wen Li , Zuo-tang Liang

We study the helicity amplitudes describing the quasielastic production of vector mesons in deep inelastic scattering within the context of the model which we previously introduced to describe the ratio of longitudinal to transverse cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 I. Royen

We use gauge/gravity duality to study vector meson (J/{\Psi}, {\rho}_0, {\Omega}, {\Phi}) production in electron-proton scattering, in the limit of high center of mass energy at fixed momentum transfer, corresponding to the limit of low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Miguel S. Costa , Marko Djurić , Nick Evans

It is reported on an analysis of vector meson leptoproduction at small Bjorken-$x$ and large photon virtuality within an approach that bases on generalized parton distributions (GPDs). This approach leads to results for cross sections and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 S. V. Goloskokov , P. Kroll

We compute the $00$ element of the spin density matrix, denoted as $\rho_{00}$ and called the spin alignment, up to the second order of the gradient expansion in local equilibrium by Zubarev's approach. In the first order, we obtain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-30 Shi-Zheng Yang , Xin-Qing Xie , Shi Pu , Jian-Hua Gao , Qun Wang

We explain how spin alignment of vector mesons can be induced by background fields, such as electromagnetic fields or soft gluon fields. Our study is based on the quantum kinetic theory of spinning quarks and antiquarks and incorporates the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Avdhesh Kumar , Berndt Müller , Di-Lun Yang

The large statistics of millions of hadronic Z0 decays, accumulated by the four LEP experiments between 1989 and 1995, allowed for detailed investigations of the fragmentation process. Inclusive Lambda_b baryons and Lambda hyperons at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Kress

Spin alignment of vector mesons in noncentral relativistic heavy ion collisions provides a novel probe of the global quark polarization and hadronization mechanism. In this paper, we discuss the spin alignment of a short-lived vector meson,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Ziyang Li , Wangmei Zha , Zebo Tang

Results on elastic vector meson production at HERA are presented in the framework of perturbative QCD. The energy dependence of the cross section for J/Psi photoproduction and for rho electroproduction is studied. A full polarisation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Barbara Clerbaux

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

In this work, we study the spin density matrix element $\rho_{00}$ of the $\phi$ in the decay $J/\psi \rightarrow \eta \pi \phi$. In previous studies, a band around 1.4 GeV on the $\pi^0\phi$ distribution in Dalitz plot was reported by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-07 Ke Wang , Shao-Fei Chen , Bo-Chao Liu