Polarization and vorticity in the quark–gluon plasma

F Becattini, MA Lisa - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The quark–gluon plasma (QGP) produced by collisions between ultrarelativistic heavy
nuclei is well described in the language of hydrodynamics. Noncentral collisions are …

Rotating quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Y Jiang, ZW Lin, J Liao - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We study the rotational collective motion of the quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy-ion
collisions using the widely adopted a multiphase transport (AMPT) model. The global …

From Kadanoff-Baym to Boltzmann equations for massive spin- fermions

XL Sheng, N Weickgenannt, E Speranza, DH Rischke… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We derive Boltzmann equations for massive spin-1/2 fermions with local and nonlocal
collision terms from the Kadanoff-Baym equation in the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism …

Global polarization in heavy-ion collisions from a transport model

H Li, LG Pang, Q Wang, XL **a - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
The polarizations of Λ and Λ¯ hyperons are important quantities in extracting the fluid
vorticity of the strongly coupled quark gluon plasma and the magnitude of the magnetic field …

Probing vorticity structure in heavy-ion collisions by local polarization

XL **a, H Li, Z Tang, Q Wang - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
We study the local structure of the vorticity field and the Λ polarization in Au+ Au collisions in
the energy range s NN= 7.7–200 GeV and Pb+ Pb collisions at s NN= 2760 GeV using a …

Thermal vorticity and spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions

DX Wei, WT Deng, XG Huang - Physical Review C, 2019 - APS
The hot and dense matter generated in heavy-ion collisions contains intricate vortical
structure in which the local fluid vorticity can be very large. Such vorticity can polarize the …

Vorticity in heavy-ion collisions

WT Deng, XG Huang - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We study the event-by-event generation of flow vorticity in the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion
Collider Au+ Au collisions and CERN Large Hadron Collider Pb+ Pb collisions by using the …

A study of vorticity formation in high energy nuclear collisions

F Becattini, G Inghirami, V Rolando, A Beraudo… - The European Physical …, 2015 - Springer
We present a quantitative study of vorticity formation in peripheral ultrarelativistic heavy-ion
collisions at s _ NN= 200 s NN= 200 GeV by using the ECHO-QGP numerical code …

hyperon polarization in relativistic heavy ion collisions from a chiral kinetic approach

Y Sun, CM Ko - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
Using a chiral kinetic approach based on initial conditions from a multiphase transport
model, we study the spin polarizations of quarks and antiquarks in noncentral heavy ion …

Global and local spin polarization in heavy ion collisions: a brief overview

Q Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:1704.04022, 2017 - arxiv.org
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