Improved quark coalescence model for spin alignments of vector mesons

Abstract

We propose an improved quark coalescence model for spin alignment of vector mesons by spin density matrix with phase space dependence. Within this model we propose an understanding of spin alignments of vector mesons $\varphi$ and $K^{\ast 0}$ in the static limit: a large positive deviation of ${\rho }_{00}$ for $\varphi$ mesons from $1/3$ may come from the electric part of the vector $\varphi$ field, while a negative deviation of ${\rho }_{00}$ for $K^{\ast 0}$ mesons may come from the electric part of vorticity fields. In the low-$p_T$ region, ${\rho }_{00}$ for $K^{\ast 0}$ mesons is proportional to $p_T^2$, which is qualitatively agree with experimental results.

arXiv comment4 pages, Contribution to the Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, SQM 2021

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