6–8 Aug 2025
Europe/Zurich timezone

Pseudogauge-invariant local equilibrium distribution

8 Aug 2025, 11:50
25m

Speaker

Francesco Becattini (Università di Firenze)

Description

The ambiguity in the choice of the spin tensor has an impact on the description of local thermodynamic equilibrium and, as a consequence, on the theoretical formulae for the spin polarization in relativistic nuclear collisions. In this talk, I will propose a new definition of the local equilibrium density operator which is free of this ambiguity, that is it is pseudo-gauge invariant. Phenomenological consequences are addressed.

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