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The Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions exhibits strong fluid-like behavior, including the development of vorticity and spin polarization effects. Understanding how these properties are influenced by the presence of a critical point in the QCD phase diagram is an open question.
At high energies, such as those reached at RHIC and the LHC, the QGP is produced at high temperatures and low baryonic chemical potential. However, to probe regions where the critical point or a first-order phase transition might occur, experiments are being conducted at lower collision energies.
In this work, we investigate and isolate the effects of vorticity in the QGP and their impact on polarization observable using a new 3+1D event-by-event ideal hydrodynamic and comparing results from simulations with and without critical point.
