Is nucleon spin thermalized in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions?

Abstract

Despite the success of the spin-thermalized assumption in explaining hyperon spin polarizations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, challenges begin to arise especially at lower collision energies. The present study compares the nucleon spin polarization during the collision process and at the freeze-out stage from a non-relativistic spin-dependent transport model with spin-thermalized approaches in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions, where the relativistic effect and the temperature gradient have shown to be unimportant. It is found that both the global and local spin polarizations are largely overestimated from spin-thermalized approaches, compared to those generated by the spin-orbit mean-field potential in transport simulations.

7 pages, 6 figures

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