Dissociation-driven quarkonium spin alignment in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV

Abstract

The observation of spin alignment of quarkonia in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions provides deep insight into the possible formation of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The present study investigates the spin alignment of quarkonia induced by dissociation mechanisms arising from medium effects imposed on quarkonia. We implement an effective Hamiltonian with a medium-modified color-singlet potential to incorporate the coupling of quarkonium spin with medium vorticity. This coupling gives rise to spin-dependent dissociation, which we identify as a plausible mechanism contributing to quarkonium spin alignment. Within the ambit of second-order relativistic viscous hydrodynamics, we calculate the spin-dependent decay widths of charmonium ($J/\psi$, $\psi$(2S)) and bottomonium (${\rm Y}$(1S), ${\rm Y}$(2S)) in a rotating thermal medium, including collisional damping and gluonic dissociation effects. We evaluate the observable ${\rho }_{00}$ for Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV as a function of transverse momentum of the quarkonia, charged particle multiplicity, and medium rotation. The results demonstrate that medium vorticity modifies the quarkonia net decay width and, as a consequence, quarkonia spin alignment gets modified. These findings suggest new directions for understanding spin transport and the microscopic dynamics of vortical QGP.

Same as the published version in Phys. Rev. D

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