1. Vortex Rings in Event-by-Event Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
- Author
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Chinellato, David Dobrigkeit, Lisa, Michael Annan, Serenone, Willian Matioli, Shen, Chun, Takahashi, Jun, and Torrieri, Giorgio
- Subjects
Nuclear Theory ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
We present event-by-event simulations for central asymmetric light+heavy and Au+Au collisions to investigate the formation and evolution of vortex-ring structures in the longitudinal flow velocity profile. The production-plane polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons, defined w.r.t. the $\Lambda$ momentum and the beam, can track the "vortex-ring" feature in the event, a characteristic vortical structure generated by longitudinal flow gradients. We make comprehensive model predictions for the rapidity-dependent vortex-ring observables for different collision system sizes at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 200$ and 72 GeV. Our predictions at the latter energy can be explored in the future LHCb fixed-target experiment at the Large Hadron Collider., Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures
- Published
- 2024