PIRSA:22110044

Signals from the hot and whirly matter produced in heavy-ion collisions

Tejeda Yeomans, M.E. (2022). Signals from the hot and whirly matter produced in heavy-ion collisions. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/22110044

Tejeda Yeomans, Maria Elena. Signals from the hot and whirly matter produced in heavy-ion collisions. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 01, 2022, https://pirsa.org/22110044 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:22110044,
            doi = {10.48660/22110044},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/22110044},
            author = {Tejeda Yeomans, Maria Elena},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Signals from the hot and whirly matter produced in heavy-ion collisions},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2022},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:22110044 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Maelena Tejeda Yeomans

University of Colima

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The polarization measurements of particles produced in heavy-ion collisions allow us to study amazing phenomena such as, the collective rotation of the nuclear medium, quark spin-alignment with the global angular momenta, local vs global polarization effects and their evolution when there are drastic changes in the properties of the hot, dense and whirly medium. Recently, measurements by the STAR collaboration at RHIC and the HADES collaboration at GSI, show the rising of Lambda and anti-Lambda global polarization with decreasing collision energy and what seems to be a differentiated peak with a sharp decrease at a lower bound in collision energy. In this talk I will report on our recent work where we predict this differentiated peak behavior using a core-corona model, so that measuring the polarization of hyperons becomes a tool to learn about strangeness availability in the medium created in heavy-ion collisions for different initial conditions. I will also present a few new developments we have made to probe the strong magnetic field produced early after the collision with primordial photons and mention other relevant signals that we are working on in order to learn about the critical end-point in the QCD phase diagram.

Zoom link:  https://pitp.zoom.us/j/95896792626?pwd=QlovbE5EWEJBSDdOZjUyK2MxYktmQT09