Relaxation time for quark spin and thermal vorticity alignment in heavy-ion collisions

We compute the relaxation time for quark/antiquark spin and thermal vorticity alignment in a quark-gluon plasma at finite temperature and quark chemical potential. We model the interaction of quark/antiquark spin with thermal vorticity as driven by a phenomenological modification of the elementary q...

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Main Authors: Alejandro Ayala, David de la Cruz, S. Hernández-Ortíz, L.A. Hernández, Jordi Salinas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-02-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319308913