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Alice Ohlson

Alice Ohlson

Senior lecturer

Alice Ohlson

Evidence of Spin-Orbital Angular Momentum Interactions in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Author

  • S Acharya
  • Jonatan Adolfsson
  • Peter Christiansen
  • Oliver Matonoha
  • Adrian Nassirpour
  • Alice Ohlson
  • Anders Oskarsson
  • Tuva Richert
  • Omar Vazquez Rueda
  • David Silvermyr
  • Evert Stenlund
  • N Zurlo

Summary, in English

The first evidence of spin alignment of vector mesons (K∗0 and φ) in heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is reported. The spin density matrix element ρ00 is measured at midrapidity (|y|

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publishing year

2020

Language

English

Publication/Series

Physical Review Letters

Volume

125

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Physical Society

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • Angular momentum
  • Binary alloys
  • Bosons
  • Hadrons
  • Heavy ions
  • Ion sources
  • Heavy ion collision
  • Large Hadron collider LHC
  • Pb-Pb collisions
  • Process of recombination
  • Relativistic heavy ion collision
  • Spin alignment
  • Spin density matrix
  • Transverse momenta
  • Colliding beam accelerators

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1079-7114