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In non-central high energy heavy ion collisions the colliding system posses a huge orbital angular momentum in the direction opposite to the normal of the reaction plane. Due to the spin-orbit coupling in strong interaction, such huge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-21 Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

We revisit the azimuthal angle dependence of the local spin polarization of hyperons in heavy-ion collisions at 200 GeV in the framework of the (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic model CLVisc. Two different initial conditions are considered in our…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-06 Hong-Zhong Wu , Long-Gang Pang , Xu-Guang Huang , Qun Wang

We study the directed flow of identified particles in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\text{NN}}=7.7$ to 62.4 GeV. The Glauber model is extended to include both a tilted deformation of the QGP fireball with respect to the longitudinal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-10 Ze-Fang Jiang , Xiang-Yu Wu , Shanshan Cao , Ben-Wei Zhang

Collective spin phenomena in the final states of heavy-ion collisions are typically understood to originate from vorticity and shear in the quark-gluon plasma. Here, we ask whether spin could already be present in the initial condition of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Giuliano Giacalone , Enrico Speranza

In a noncentral heavy-ion collision, the two colliding nuclei have finite angular momentum in the direction perpendicular to the reaction plane. After the collision, a fraction of the total angular momentum is retained in the produced hot…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Wei-Tian Deng , Xu-Guang Huang

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

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Ilya Selyuzhenkov

Imposing an equilibrium between the thermal pressure of deconfined quarks and gluons and the dynamical compression pressure exercised by in-flowing nuclear matter, we study the initial thermal conditions reached in a quark-gluon plasma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Jean Letessier , Jan Rafelski , Ahmed Tounsi

Based on the model of three-fluid dynamics (3FD), the global $\Lambda$ polarization ($P_\Lambda$) is calculated in Au+Au collisions at 3 $\leq\sqrt{s_{NN}}\leq$ 9 GeV, in which high baryon density is achieved. Various contributions to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 Yu. B. Ivanov

Strange hadrons have been suggested as sensitive probes of the properties of the nuclear matter created in heavy-ion collisions. At few-GeV collision energies, the formed medium is baryon-rich due to baryon stopping effect. In these…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-11-17 Hongcan Li

Intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions can produce a spin polarization of the projectile-like species. Spin polarization has been observed for both nucleon removal and nucleon pickup processes. Qualitative agreement with measured spin…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 D. E. Groh , J. S. Pinter , P. F. Mantica , T. J. Mertzimekis , A. E. Stuchbery , D. T. Khoa

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

The first evidence of spin alignment of vector mesons ($K^{*0}$ and $\phi$) in heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is reported. The spin density matrix element $\rho_{00}$ is measured at midrapidity ($|y| <$ 0.5) in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-01-14 ALICE Collaboration

The earliest phase of an ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision can be described as a highly populated system of gluons called glasma. We study some glasma characteristics related to the system's angular momentum. The first one is the global…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-28 Margaret E. Carrington , Stanislaw Mrowczynski

The strange baryon production in Bi+Bi collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=9.0$\,GeV is studied using the PHSD transport model. Hyperon and anti-hyperon yields, transverse momentum spectra, and rapidity spectra are calculated, their centrality…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-15 Nikita S. Tsegelnik , Vadym Voronyuk , Evgeni E. Kolomeitsev

The hot and dense matter generated in heavy-ion collisions contains intricate vortical structure in which the local fluid vorticity can be very large. Such vorticity can polarize the spin of the produced particles. We study the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 De-Xian Wei , Wei-Tian Deng , Xu-Guang Huang

The quark-gluon plasma produced by collisions between ultra-relativistic heavy nuclei is well described in the language of hydrodynamics. Non-central collisions are characterized by very large angular momentum, which in a fluid system…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-03-10 Francesco Becattini , Michael Lisa

We study the transfer of angular momentum in high energy nuclear collisions from the colliding nuclei to the region around midrapidity, using the classical approximation of the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) picture. We find that the angular…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Rainer J. Fries , Guangyao Chen , Sidharth Somanathan

Incorporating for the first time both the spin and isospin degrees of freedom explicitly in transport model simulations of intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions, we observe that a local spin polarization appears during collision process.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-09 Jun Xu , Bao-An Li

We have analyzed the angular distributions of the b- particles emitted in Kr+Em -reaction at 0.95 A GeV and in Au+Em -reaction at 10.7 A GeV and compared these with lighter projectile experiments for which some structure in the angular…

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