Spin dynamics with realistic hydrodynamic background for relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

The equations of perfect spin hydrodynamics are solved for the first time using a realistic <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <a:mrow> <a:mo>(</a:mo> <a:mn>3</a:mn> <a:mo>+</a:mo> <a:mn>1</a:mn> <a:mo>)</a:mo> </a:mrow> </a:math> -dimensional hydrodynamic background, calibrated to reproduce a comprehensive set of hadronic observables, including rapidity distributions, transverse momentum spectra, and elliptic flow coefficients for <b:math xmlns:b="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <b:mrow> <b:mi>Au</b:mi> <b:mo>+</b:mo> <b:mi>Au</b:mi> </b:mrow> </b:math> collisions at the beam energy of <c:math xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <c:mrow> <c:msqrt> <c:msub> <c:mi>s</c:mi> <c:mrow> <c:mi>N</c:mi> <c:mi>N</c:mi> </c:mrow> </c:msub> </c:msqrt> <c:mo>=</c:mo> <c:mn>200</c:mn> <c:mspace width="0.16em"/> <c:mi>GeV</c:mi> </c:mrow> </c:math> . The spin dynamics is governed by the conservation of the spin tensor, describing spin-1/2 particles, with particle mass in the spin tensor treated as an effective parameter. We investigate several scenarios, varying both the effective mass and the initial evolution time for the spin polarization tensor. The model predictions are then compared with experimental measurements of global and longitudinal spin polarization of Λ hyperons. Our results indicate that a successful description of the data requires a delayed initial evolution time for the perfect spin hydrodynamics of about <e:math xmlns:e="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <e:mrow> <e:mn>4</e:mn> <e:mspace width="0.16em"/> <e:mi>fm</e:mi> <e:mo>/</e:mo> <e:mi>c</e:mi> </e:mrow> </e:math> (in contrast to the standard initial time of <g:math xmlns:g="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <g:mrow> <g:mn>1</g:mn> <g:mspace width="0.16em"/> <g:mi>fm</g:mi> <g:mo>/</g:mo> <g:mi>c</g:mi> </g:mrow> </g:math> used for the hydrodynamic background). This delay marks a transition from the phase where spin-orbit interaction is significant to the regime where spin-conserving processes dominate. Our findings suggest that the spin-orbit dissipative interaction plays a significant role only in the very early stages of the system's evolution.

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