Practical considerations for measuring global spin alignment of vector mesons in relativistic heavy ion collisions
Abstract
Global spin alignment of vector mesons is a sensitive probe of system vorticity and particle production mechanism in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The measurement of global spin alignment is gaining increasing interest and deserves careful considerations. In this paper, we lay out a few practical issues that need to be taken care of when measuring global spin alignment of vector mesons. They are, the correction for event plane resolution, reconciling measurements made with different event planes, the correction for the effect of finite acceptance in pseudorapidity, and the consideration for measuring the azimuthal angle dependence. Furthermore insights and methodologies offered in this paper will help experiments to measure the global spin alignment properly and accurately.
- Authors:
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Central China Normal Univ., Hubei (China)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai (People's Republic of China); Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (People's Republic of China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1477968
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1478689
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-209178-2018-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review C
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 98; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Tang, Aihong, Tu, B., and Zhou, C. S. Practical considerations for measuring global spin alignment of vector mesons in relativistic heavy ion collisions. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.98.044907.
Tang, Aihong, Tu, B., & Zhou, C. S. Practical considerations for measuring global spin alignment of vector mesons in relativistic heavy ion collisions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.98.044907
Tang, Aihong, Tu, B., and Zhou, C. S. Fri .
"Practical considerations for measuring global spin alignment of vector mesons in relativistic heavy ion collisions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.98.044907. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1477968.
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title = {Practical considerations for measuring global spin alignment of vector mesons in relativistic heavy ion collisions},
author = {Tang, Aihong and Tu, B. and Zhou, C. S.},
abstractNote = {Global spin alignment of vector mesons is a sensitive probe of system vorticity and particle production mechanism in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The measurement of global spin alignment is gaining increasing interest and deserves careful considerations. In this paper, we lay out a few practical issues that need to be taken care of when measuring global spin alignment of vector mesons. They are, the correction for event plane resolution, reconciling measurements made with different event planes, the correction for the effect of finite acceptance in pseudorapidity, and the consideration for measuring the azimuthal angle dependence. Furthermore insights and methodologies offered in this paper will help experiments to measure the global spin alignment properly and accurately.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.98.044907},
journal = {Physical Review C},
number = 4,
volume = 98,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Oct 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
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