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The $\Lambda$ spin polarization is a crucial probe of the gradients of velocity and temperature in the quark-gluon plasma generated in heavy-ion collisions. However, it is still not systematically used to tune hydrodynamic models. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 Andrea Palermo

We report on work aimed to describe the $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ global polarizations in a heavy-ion collision environment using the core-corona model, where the source of these hyperons is a high-density core and a less dense corona.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-22 Alejandro Ayala , Isabel Domínguez , Ivonne Maldonado , Maria Elena Tejeda-Yeomans

In this work, we start with chiral kinetic theory and construct the spin hydrodynamic framework for a chiral spinor system. Using the 14-moment expansion formalism, we obtain the equations of motion of second-order dissipative relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-26 Shuzhe Shi , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon

Spin transfer in deep-inelastic Lambda electroproduction has been studied with the HERMES detector using the 27.6 GeV polarized positron beam in the HERA storage ring. For an average fractional energy transfer <z> = 0.45, the longitudinal…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-04-15 HERMES Collaboration , A. Airapetian

The primary objective of this thesis is to develop a consistent theoretical framework of dissipative hydrodynamics for a relativistic fluid with spin - hereafter referred to as relativistic dissipative spin hydrodynamics. In this framework,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-25 Asaad Daher

We review the theoretical framework for the calculation of particle polarization in relativistic heavy ion collisions within the hydrodynamical model. The covariant decomposition of the mean spin vector is presented and open theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 F. Becattini

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

We study the impact of the QCD critical point (CP) on the spin polarization of $\Lambda$-hyperon generated by the thermal vorticity in viscous quark gluon plasma (QGP). The equations of the relativistic causal viscous hydrodynamics have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-13 Sushant K. Singh , Jan-e Alam

Global polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ is calculated based on the axial vortical effect (AVE). Simulations are performed within the model of the three-fluid dynamics. Equations of state with the deconfinement transition result…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-21 Yu. B. Ivanov

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

We calculate the polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in Au-Au collisions at RHIC Beam Energy Scan range $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=7.7, \dots, 200$ GeV in a state-of-the-art 3+1 dimensional cascade + viscous hydro model vHLLE+UrQMD. We find that the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Iu. Karpenko , F. Becattini

In the 1970s, an unexpected transverse $\Lambda$ polarization in unpolarized proton-Beryllium collisions was discovered, which initiated extensive studies on spin phenomena in high-energy physics. Over the past five decades, similar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-06 Zhoudunming Tu

We analyze the spin alignment of vector mesons stemming from spin correlation of the quark and antiquark induced by background color fields in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The quark-coalescence equation relating the collision kernel…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Di-Lun Yang

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

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

Using classical description of spin degrees of freedom, we extend recent formulation of the perfect-fluid hydrodynamics for spin-polarized fluids to the case including dissipation. Our work is based on the analysis of classical kinetic…

Particle spin polarization is known to be linked both to rotation (angular momentum) and magnetization of a many particle system. However, in the most common formulation of relativistic kinetic theory, the spin degrees of freedom appear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Leonardo Tinti , Wojciech Florkowski

The Ginzburg-Landau equations are derived from the microscopic theory for clean layered superconductors with $d_{x^2-y^2}$ pairing symmetry, including the Pauli paramagnetism effect. The upper critical field $H_{c2}$ parallel to the $c$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Tanasković , Z. Radović , L. Dobrosavljević-Grujić

We analyze spin-dependent transport through a spin-diode in the presence of spin-flip and under influence of temperature bias. The current polarization and the spin accumulation are investigated in detail by means of reduced density matrix.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

We present a technique to calculate the spin relaxation of hot electrons during their energy thermalization in the Gamma-valley of zinc-blende semiconductors. The results of this model match recent experimental data and they can be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-18 Yang Song , Hanan Dery