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Fluid dynamic approach is a workhorse for modelling collective dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The approach has been successful in describing various features of the momentum distributions of hadrons produced in the heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Iurii Karpenko

The extreme temperatures and energy densities generated by ultra-relativistic collisions between heavy nuclei produce a state of matter with surprising fluid properties. Non-central collisions have angular momentum on the order of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-08-29 STAR Collaboration

Recent experimental data show an unexpectedly large spin alignment of $\phi$ mesons in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, which can be explained by short-distance fluctuations of strong-force fields (vector $\phi$ fields) within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-16 Xin-Li Sheng , Xiang-Yu Wu , Dirk H. Rischke , Xin-Nian Wang

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

We calculate the longitudinal polarizations of hyperons in high $p_\perp$ jets in $pp$ collisions in which one of the protons is longitudinally polarized at RHIC energies using different models for the spin transfer in fragmentation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Qing-hua Xu , Chun-xiu Liu , Zuo-tang Liang

We develop a quantum spin-density-matrix framework for heavy-quark spin dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Starting from an initial polarization induced along the magnetic-field direction, we derive the evolution equation for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 Sunil Jaiswal , Sourav Dey , Amaresh Jaiswal

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 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

Recent e+e- annihilation experiments show a striking spin alignment of vector mesons produced in the fragmentation of a polarized quark.We show that these data imply a simple relation between the polarization of the anti-quark, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Zuo-tang Liang

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

We study the production of longitudinally polarized Lambda-baryons in single-spin pp collisions at RHIC and HERA-N as a means of determining the spin-dependent Lambda fragmentation functions. It is shown that a measurement of the rapidity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. de Florian , M. Stratmann , W. Vogelsang

We present a systematic study of $\Lambda$ hyperon's polarization observables using event-by-event (3+1)D relativistic hydrodynamics. The effects of initial hot spot size and QGP's specific shear viscosity on the polarization observables…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 Sahr Alzhrani , Sangwook Ryu , Chun Shen

Using the local equilibrium density operator, we develop a geometry-informed linear response theory that takes into account the parameterization of the freezeout hypersurface before the gradient expansion is carried out. Assuming local…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-12 Andrea Palermo , Masoud Shokri

We present a framework for spin dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Under the approximation of small polarization, macroscopic spin degrees of freedom decouple from the background, and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Sapna , Sushant K. Singh , David Wagner

We investigate spin polarization dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions using ideal relativistic spin hydrodynamics, employing non-boost-invariant longitudinal solutions as the hydrodynamic background. Operating in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Matteo Buzzegoli , Aleksandar Gecic , Rajeev Singh

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

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

The analysis\cite{ohkuma:1} of helicity transfer to $\Lambda_{c}^{+}$ in polarized proton collisions is extended to the proton helicity correlations with the $\Lambda_{c}^{+}$ transverse polarization in the production plane (parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 V. L. Rykov , K. Sudoh

The recent observation of global spin polarization of $\Lambda$ ($\bar{\Lambda}$) hyperons and the spin alignment of $\phi$ and $K^{*0}$ vector mesons create remarkable interest in investigating the particle polarization in the relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-29 Bhagyarathi Sahoo , Captain R. Singh , Raghunath Sahoo

We investigate the hydrodynamic helicity polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons, defined as the projection of the spin polarization vector along the directions of particle momenta, at RHIC-BES energies by utilizing the relativistic (3+1)D…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-19 Cong Yi , Xiang-Yu Wu , Di-Lun Yang , Jian-Hua Gao , Shi Pu , Guang-You Qin