Anomalous spin polarization from turbulent color fields
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Müller, B; Yang, DL
Published in: Physical Review D
January 1, 2022
We study the important, yet widely overlooked, role of gluons for spin transport with a connection to local parity violation in quark gluon plasmas. We employ the formalism of quantum kinetic theory to quarks in weakly coupled quantum chromodynamics to derive the source terms for quark spin polarization. These source terms involve parity-odd correlators of dynamically generated color fields in near-equilibrium quark gluon plasmas and give rise to locally fluctuating axial charge currents. Our results provide a possible explanation for the spin alignment of vector mesons measured in high-energy nuclear collisions.
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Physical Review D
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EISSN
2470-0029
ISSN
2470-0010
Publication Date
January 1, 2022
Volume
105
Issue
1
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Müller, B., & Yang, D. L. (2022). Anomalous spin polarization from turbulent color fields. Physical Review D, 105(1). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.L011901
Müller, B., and D. L. Yang. “Anomalous spin polarization from turbulent color fields.” Physical Review D 105, no. 1 (January 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.L011901.
Müller B, Yang DL. Anomalous spin polarization from turbulent color fields. Physical Review D. 2022 Jan 1;105(1).
Müller, B., and D. L. Yang. “Anomalous spin polarization from turbulent color fields.” Physical Review D, vol. 105, no. 1, Jan. 2022. Scopus, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.L011901.
Müller B, Yang DL. Anomalous spin polarization from turbulent color fields. Physical Review D. 2022 Jan 1;105(1).
Published In
Physical Review D
DOI
EISSN
2470-0029
ISSN
2470-0010
Publication Date
January 1, 2022
Volume
105
Issue
1