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Chiral magnetovortical instability
Shuai Wang, Xu-Guang Huang
We demonstrate that in a chiral plasma subject to an external magnetic field, the chiral vortical effect can induce a new type of magnetohydrodynamic instability which we refer to…
Dynamic Calculations of Magnetic Field and Implications on Spin Polarization and Spin Alignment in Heavy Ion Collisions
Hui Li, Xiao-Liang Xia, Xu-Guang Huang +1
Magnetic field plays a crucial role in various novel phenomena in heavy-ion collisions. We solve the Maxwell equations numerically in a medium with time-dependent electric conducti…
Dense Nuclear Matter Equation of State from Heavy-Ion Collisions
Agnieszka Sorensen, Kshitij Agarwal, Kyle W. Brown +133
The nuclear equation of state (EOS) is at the center of numerous theoretical and experimental efforts in nuclear physics. With advances in microscopic theories for nuclear interact…
Electromagnetic fields in ultra-peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Jie Zhao, Jinhui Chen, Xu-Guang Huang +1
Ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs) offer unique opportunities to study processes under strong electromagnetic fields. In these collisions, highly charged fast-moving ions…
Spin Polarization Formula for Dirac Fermions at Local Equilibrium
Yu-Chen Liu, Xu-Guang Huang
We derive a Cooper-Frye type spin polarization formula for Dirac fermions at local thermal equilibrium described by a grand canonical ensemble specified by temperature, fluid veloc…
Lambda polarization in Ag +Ag and Au +Au collisions around a few GeV
Xian-Gai Deng, Xu-Guang Huang, Yu-Gang Ma
Within the framework of Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) model, we extract the global spin polarization of hyperon in Ag + Ag and A…
Global hyperon polarization and effects of decay feeddown
Hui Li, Xiao-Liang Xia, Xu-Guang Huang +1
We study the global polarizations of , , and hyperons in noncentral Au+Au collisions at 7.7-200 GeV. We highlight the importance of effect of…
Global spin polarization of multistrange hyperons and feed-down effect in heavy-ion collisions
Hui Li, Xiao-Liang Xia, Xu-Guang Huang +1
Global spin polarization of hyperons is an important observable to probe the vorticity of the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions. We calculate the global polarizat…
Hydrodynamic Attractor in a Hubble Expansion
Zhiwei Du, Xu-Guang Huang, Hidetoshi Taya
We analytically investigate hydrodynamic attractor solutions in both Müller-Israel-Stewart (MIS) and kinetic theories in a viscous fluid system undergoing a Hubble expansion with a…
Dynamical evolution of magnetic field in the pre-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma
Li Yan, Xu-Guang Huang
High-energy heavy-ion collisions generate extremely strong magnetic field which plays a key role in a number of novel quantum phenomena in quark-gluon plasma (QGP), such as the chi…
A hydrodynamic study of hyperon spin polarization in relativistic heavy ion collisions
Baochi Fu, Kai Xu, Xu-Guang Huang +1
We perform a systematic study of the spin polarization of hyperons in heavy-ion collisions using the MUSIC hydrodynamic model with A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) pre-equilibrium dy…
Vorticity and Spin Polarization in Heavy Ion Collisions: Transport Models
Xu-Guang Huang, Jinfeng Liao, Qun Wang +1
Heavy ion collisions generate strong fluid vorticty in the produced hot quark-gluon matter which could in turn induce measurable spin polarization of hadrons. We review recent prog…
Local spin alignment of vector mesons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Xiao-Liang Xia, Hui Li, Xu-Guang Huang +1
We investigate the spin alignment of vector mesons arising from locally polarized quarks and anti-quarks (local spin alignment) in heavy-ion collisions. We find that $ρ_{00}\neq 1/…
Anomalous chiral transports and spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions
Yu-Chen Liu, Xu-Guang Huang
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions create hot quark-gluon plasma as well as very strong electromagnetic (EM) and fluid vortical fields. The strong EM field and vorticity can induce…
Vorticity and Spin Polarization --- A Theoretical Perspective
Xu-Guang Huang
We give a theoretical perspective on the vorticity and spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions. We discuss the recent progress in spin hydrodynamics and spin kinetic theory. We a…
Local Spin Polarization in 200 GeV Au+Au and 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb Collisions
Hong-Zhong Wu, Long-Gang Pang, Xu-Guang Huang +1
We calculated the azimuthal angle dependence of the local spin polarization of hyperons in 200 GeV Au+Au and 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions in the framework of the (3+1)D viscous hydrod…
Signatures of the vortical quark-gluon plasma in hadron yields
P Collaboration, Hidetoshi Taya, Aaron Park +10
We investigate the hadron production from the vortical quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. Based on the quark-coalescence and statistical hadronization models, we s…
Vorticity in low-energy heavy-ion collisions
Xian-Gai Deng, Xu-Guang Huang, Yu-Gang Ma +1
We study the kinematic and thermal vorticities in low-energy heavy-ion collisions by using the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) model. We explore their time ev…
Do charged pions condense in a magnetic field with rotation?
Hao-Lei Chen, Xu-Guang Huang, Kazuya Mameda
We revisit the condensation scenario of charged pions in external magnetic field and rotation, which was first considered by Y. Liu and I. Zahed. Based on the Ginzburg-Landau analy…
Local spin polarization in high energy heavy ion collisions
Hong-Zhong Wu, Long-Gang Pang, Xu-Guang Huang +1
We revisit the azimuthal angle dependence of the local spin polarization of hyperons in heavy-ion collisions at 200 GeV in the framework of the (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic model CL…
Feed-down effect on spin polarization
Xiao-Liang Xia, Hui Li, Xu-Guang Huang +1
We develop a theoretical framework to study the feed-down effect of higher-lying strange baryons on the spin polarization of the hyperon. In this framework, we consider two-bod…
Thermal vorticity and spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions
De-Xian Wei, Wei-Tian Deng, Xu-Guang Huang
The hot and dense matter generated in heavy-ion collisions contains intricate vortical structure in which the local fluid vorticity can be very large. Such vorticity can polarize t…
Hydrodynamic response in simulations within a multiphase transport model
De-Xian Wei, Xu-Guang Huang, Li Yan
We carry out simulations using a multiphase transport (AMPT) model to describe the observed flow signatures in TeV Pb-Pb collisions. Especially, we calculate t…
Predictions for isobaric collisions at = 200 GeV from a multiphase transport model
Wei-Tian Deng, Xu-Guang Huang, Guo-Liang Ma +1
The isobaric collisions of Ru + Ru and Zr + Zr have recently been proposed to discern the charge separation signal of the chiral mag…