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Since the first evidence of a global polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in relativistic nuclear collisions in 2017, spin has opened a new window in the field, both at experimental and theoretical level, and an exciting perspective. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-28 F. Becattini

Large orbital angular momentum can be generated in non-central heavy-ion collisions, and part of it is expected to be converted into final particle's polarization due to the spin-orbit coupling. Within the framework of A Multi-Phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-08 Xiao-Liang Xia , Hui Li , Qun Wang

Ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions create the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) known as the hottest, least viscous, and most vortical fluid ever produced in terrestrial laboratories. Its vortical structure has been uncovered through the spin…

Based on the chiral kinetic approach using initial conditions from a multiphase transport model, we study the spin polarizations of quarks and antiquarks in non-central heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Because of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

We study the longitudinal spin polarization of a relativistic fluid of massive spin-1/2 particles undergoing a boost-invariant expansion in the longitudinal direction and rotating in the transverse plane. We express the polarization vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Nora Weickgenannt , Jean-Paul Blaizot

The polarization of the $\Lambda$ particle offers the unique opportunity to study the hydrodynamic gradients in the Quark-Gluon Plasma formed in heavy-ion collisions. However, the theoretical formula commonly used to calculate polarization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-12 Andrea Palermo

Bayesian analyses in the context of relativistic heavy-ion collisions have so far relied almost exclusively on bulk hadronic observables constructed from momentum degrees of freedom to constrain the transport properties of the quark-gluon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Sushant K. Singh , Eduardo Grossi , Francesco Becattini

We calculated the azimuthal angle dependence of the local spin polarization of hyperons in 200 GeV Au+Au and 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions in the framework of the (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic model CLVisc with AMPT initial conditions encoding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Hong-Zhong Wu , Long-Gang Pang , Xu-Guang Huang , Qun Wang

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

We study helicity polarization through the (3+1) dimensional relativistic viscous hydrodynamic models at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$GeV Au+Au collisions. Similar to the local spin polarization, we consider the helicity polarization beyond global…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-03 Cong Yi , Shi Pu , Jian-Hua Gao , Di-Lun Yang

The polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons from relativistic flow vorticity is studied in peripheral heavy ion reactions at FAIR and NICA energies, just above the threshold of the transition to the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Previous calculations at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-12 Y. L. Xie , M. Bleicher , H. Stöcker , D. J. Wang , L. P. Csernai

We study local spin polarization in the relativistic hydrodynamic model. Generalizing the Wigner functions previously obtained from chiral kinetic theory by Y. Hidaka et al. [Phys. Rev. D 97, 016004 (2018)] to the massive case, we present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-28 Cong Yi , Shi Pu , Di-Lun Yang

The hot and dense matter formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is termed quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The evolution of the medium is characterized by non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-09 Debojit Sarkar

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

We present a new formulation of non-dissipative relativistic spin hydrodynamics that incorporates spin degrees of freedom into the divergence-type theory framework. Due to the divergence-type structure, it is straightforward to enforce…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-26 Nick Abboud , Lorenzo Gavassino , Rajeev Singh , Enrico Speranza

We report the measurements of global spin polarization of hyperons ($P_{\Lambda}$) from FAIR, RHIC and LHC energies. The $P_{\Lambda}$ continue to follow an increasing trend at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm NN}}$ < 7.7 GeV indicating that enormous…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-03-22 Subhash Singha

Global polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons in Au+Au collisions at collision energies $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 4-40 GeV in the midrapidity region and total polarization, i.e. averaged over all rapidities, are studied within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-31 Yu. B. Ivanov , V. D. Toneev , A. A. Soldatov

We study the longitudinal polarization of hyperons and anti-hyperons at forward pseudorapidity, $2.5<\eta<4$, in singly polarized $pp$ collisions at RHIC energies by using different parameterizations of the polarized parton densities and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Wei Zhou , Shan-shan Zhou , Qing-hua Xu

Spin polarization provides a novel probe of the rotational properties of the quark-gluon plasma formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. This work investigates the equation of state, particularly its transport and thermodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 De-Xian Wei

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