Quark Matter 2018

May 13 – 19, 2018
Venice, Italy
Europe/Zurich timezone
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Global Lambda polarization in intermediate & high energy heavy ion collisions

May 15, 2018, 10:00 AM
20m
Sala Mosaici-2, 3rd Floor (Palazzo del Casinò)

Sala Mosaici-2, 3rd Floor

Palazzo del Casinò

Parallel Talk Chirality, vorticity and polarisation effects

Speaker

Mr Yilong Xie (University of Bergen)

Description

Relativistic thermodynamics with spin provided the polarization 4-vector to characterize the spin alignment in rotating systems. Based on a Yang-Mills flux-tube initial state and a high-resolution, (3+1)D particle-in-cell relativistic (PICR) hydrodynamics simulation, we numerically obtain the polarization vector for $\Lambda$ hyperons at NICA and FAIR energies, and find that the $y$ component of the polarization vector is dominant, while $x$ and $z$ components are anti-symmetric in the transverse momentum space, implying a vanishing contribution to the global polarization (at collider frame). Besides, we analyze the dependence of $\Lambda$ polarization effect on centrality, energy and freeze-out time, in our model. The linear dependence of $\Lambda$ polarization on impact parameter reveals that the polarization stems from the initial orbital angular momentum; the polarization effect is found to decrease with increasing energy, which is in line with the recent results from RHIC BES program, and is attributed to the more intensive thermal motion of particles at higher energies. The time evolution of the $\Lambda$ polarization in our calculation agrees with the time evolution of vorticity predicted previously, and indicates the limit of applicability of hydrodynamic model at late stages of the expansion.
[1] Y.L. Xie, D.J. Wang, and L. P. Csernai, Phys. Rev. C 95, 031901(R) (2017).
[2] Y. L. Xie, M. Bleicher, H. Stöcker, D. J. Wang, and L. P. Csernai, Phys. Rev. C 94, 054907 (2016).

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Primary authors

Mr Yilong Xie (University of Bergen) Dujuan Wang (Wuhan University of Technology) Prof. Laszlo Pal Csernai (University of Bergen) Marcus Bleicher (Uni Frankfurt) Prof. Horst Stocker (Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies)

Presentation materials

 Global Lambda polarization in intermediate & high energy heavy ion collisions-Yilong Xie.pdf Global Lambda polarization in intermediate & high energy heavy ion collisions-Yilong Xie.pptx