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We study the mass spectra and spin alignment of vector meson $J/\psi$ in a thermal magnetized background using a generalized theoretical framework based on gauge/gravity duality. Utilizing a soft wall model for the QGP background and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-30 Yan-Qing Zhao , Xin-Li Sheng , Si-Wen Li , Defu Hou

The global spin alignment of the vector meson has been observed in relativistic heavy ion collisions, but is still on hot debates in the theoretical community. Here we propose to apply the light front framework to explain this phenomenon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-09 Baochi Fu , Fei Gao , Yuxin Liu , Huichao Song

We investigate the spin alignment of vector mesons arising from locally polarized quarks and anti-quarks (local spin alignment) in heavy-ion collisions. We find that $\rho_{00}\neq 1/3$ does not necessarily signal the global polarization of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-30 Xiao-Liang Xia , Hui Li , Xu-Guang Huang , Huan Zhong Huang

In this addendum to [1], we apply the techniques developed in that paper to the $J/\Psi$ and $\Upsilon$ spin alignement measurements in [2]. We argue that while the data points to a maximally impure density matrix, consistent with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-31 Kayman J. Gonçalves , Giorgio Torrieri

The global and local spin polarization measurements of $\Lambda$ ($\bar{\Lambda}$) hyperons by STAR and ALICE Collaborations open up an immense interest in investigating the spin polarization dynamics in heavy-ion collisions. Recent studies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-30 Bhagyarathi Sahoo , Captain R. Singh , Raghunath Sahoo

Event-by-Event fluctuations for high energy heavy-ion collisions are investigated. The $\Phi$-measures are calculated for pions. It is found that multiparticle symmetrization correlation has great influence on the value of $\Phi$ if the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Q. H. Zhang

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

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Zuo-tang Liang

Besides earlier predictions based on both phenomenological models and modern microscopic many-body theories, circumstantial evidence was recently found for a reduced kinetic symmetry energy of isospin-asymmetric nucleonic matter compared to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-14 Bao-An Li , Wen-Jun Guo , Zhaozhong Shi

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

A recently introduced relativistic nuclear energy density functional, constrained by features of low-energy QCD, is extended to describe the structure of hypernuclei. The density-dependent mean field and the spin-orbit potential of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Finelli

We review studies of vortical motion and the resulting global polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons in heavy-ion collisions, in particular, within 3FD model. 3FD predictions for the global midrapidity polarization in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Yu. B. Ivanov , V. D. Toneev , A. A. Soldatov

We argue that spin alignment of the vector mesons observed in unpolarized hadron-hadron collisions is closely related to the single spin left-right asymmetry observed in transversely polarized hadron-hadron collisions. We present the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-hua Xu , Zuo-tang Liang

Strong electron correlations lie at the origin of transformative phenomena such as colossal magneto-resistance and high-temperature superconductivity. Already near room temperature, doped copper oxide materials display remarkable features…

Spin effects in strong interaction high energy processes are subtle phenomena which involve both short and long distance physics and test perturbative and non perturbative aspects of QCD. Moreover, depending on quantities like interferences…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mauro Anselmino

In this study, we investigate the influence of deconfined QCD matter on quarkonium spin alignment in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We estimate the spin alignment of charmonium ($J/\psi$, and $\psi$(2S)) and bottomonium…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-12 Bhagyarathi Sahoo , Captain R. Singh , Raghunath Sahoo

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

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 derive the quantum kinetic theory for massive fermions with collision terms and self-energy corrections based on quantum field theory. We adopt an effective power counting scheme with $\hbar$ expansion to obtain the leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-28 Shuo Fang , Shi Pu , Di-Lun Yang

We present a subset of experimental results on charge fluctuation from the heavy-ion collisions to search for phase transition and location of critical point in the QCD phase diagram. Measurements from the heavy-ion experiments at the SPS…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-01-24 D. K. Mishra , P. Garg , P. K. Netrakanti , L. M. Pant , A. K. Mohanty

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