Global quark polarization in non-central A+A collisions

Gao, Jian-Hua; Chen, Shou-Wan; Deng, Wei-tian; Tang, Zuo-Tang; Wang, Qun; Wang, Xin-Nian

Title: Global quark polarization in non-central A+A collisions

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Partons produced in the early stage of non-central heavy-ioncollisionscan develop a longitudinal fluid shear because of unequal localnumber densities of participant target and projectile nucleons. Undersuch fluid shear, local parton pairs with non-vanishing impact parameterhave finite local relative orbital angular momentum along the directionopposite to the reaction plane. Such finite relative orbitalangularmomentum among locally interacting quark pairs can lead to global quarkpolarization along the same direction due to spin-orbital coupling. Locallongitudinal fluid shear is estimated within both Landau fireball andBjorken scaling model of initial parton production. Quark polarizationthrough quark-quark scatterings with the exchange of a thermal gluon iscalculated beyond small-angle scattering approximation in a quark-gluonplasma. The polarization is shown to have a non-monotonic dependence onthe local relative orbital angular momentum dictated by the interplaybetween electric and magnetic interaction. It peaks at a value ofrelative orbital angular momentum which scales with the magnetic mass ofthe exchanged gluons. With the estimated small longitudinal fluid shearin semi-peripheral Au+Au collisions at the RHIC energy, the final quarkpolarization is found to be small left hbar P_q right hbar<0.04 inthe weak coupling limit. Possible behavior of the quark polarization inthe strong coupling limit and implications on the experimental detectionof such global quark polarization at RHIC andmore » LHC are alsodiscussed.« less

Authors:: Gao, Jian-Hua; Chen, Shou-Wan; Deng, Wei-tian; Tang, Zuo-Tang; Wang, Qun; Wang, Xin-Nian

Publication Date:: Fri Oct 12 00:00:00 EDT 2007

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Director. Office of Science. NuclearPhysics

OSTI Identifier:: 928885

Report Number(s):: LBNL-63515
R&D Project: NTCOST; BnR: KB0301020; TRN: US0803276

DOE Contract Number:: DE-AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Physical Review C

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 0; Journal Issue: 0; Related Information: Journal Publication Date: 0

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72; APPROXIMATIONS; DETECTION; GLUONS; IMPACT PARAMETER; NUCLEONS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; POLARIZATION; PRODUCTION; PROJECTILES; QUARK MATTER; QUARKS; SCATTERING; SHEAR; TARGETS

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                    Gao, Jian-Hua, Chen, Shou-Wan, Deng, Wei-tian, Tang, Zuo-Tang, Wang, Qun, and Wang, Xin-Nian. Global quark polarization in non-central A+A collisions.  United States: N. p., 2007. 
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                    Gao, Jian-Hua, Chen, Shou-Wan, Deng, Wei-tian, Tang, Zuo-Tang, Wang, Qun, & Wang, Xin-Nian. Global quark polarization in non-central A+A collisions.  United States.

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                    Gao, Jian-Hua, Chen, Shou-Wan, Deng, Wei-tian, Tang, Zuo-Tang, Wang, Qun, and Wang, Xin-Nian. 2007.  
        "Global quark polarization in non-central A+A collisions".  United States.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/928885.

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