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| author | Li, Tianyang Fan, Yunfei Huang, Anping Chen, Baoyi |
| author_facet | Li, Tianyang Fan, Yunfei Huang, Anping Chen, Baoyi |
| contents | In non-central relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the produced quark-gluon plasma (QGP) behaves approximately as a rotating fluid due to the system's initial angular momentum. In this rotating fluid, the spins of quarks become polarized due to the coupling between spin and angular momentum, as well as random spin-spin interactions. Since the Landau-Lifshitz (LL) equation effectively describes the spin polarization of fermions in a medium with a magnetic field, we derive a phenomenological equation analogous to the LL equation for heavy quark spin dynamics in the rotating medium. The spin-angular momentum coupling and random spin-spin interactions are incorporated, leading to a detailed balance of heavy quark spin distributions. This equation provides insight into the spin dynamics of heavy quarks and quarkonium in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. |
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| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Dynamical equation for quark spin polarization in the rotating medium Li, Tianyang Fan, Yunfei Huang, Anping Chen, Baoyi Nuclear Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology In non-central relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the produced quark-gluon plasma (QGP) behaves approximately as a rotating fluid due to the system's initial angular momentum. In this rotating fluid, the spins of quarks become polarized due to the coupling between spin and angular momentum, as well as random spin-spin interactions. Since the Landau-Lifshitz (LL) equation effectively describes the spin polarization of fermions in a medium with a magnetic field, we derive a phenomenological equation analogous to the LL equation for heavy quark spin dynamics in the rotating medium. The spin-angular momentum coupling and random spin-spin interactions are incorporated, leading to a detailed balance of heavy quark spin distributions. This equation provides insight into the spin dynamics of heavy quarks and quarkonium in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. |
| title | Dynamical equation for quark spin polarization in the rotating medium |
| topic | Nuclear Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17230 |