Subatomic swirls and beyond : spin transport in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions

Time : 2022/05/05 (Thu.) 12:30
Title: Subatomic swirls and beyond : spin transport in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions

Abstract:
In the experiment of relativistic heavy ion collisions (HIC), strong
magnetic and vortical fields are produced, which make it an ideal test
ground for studying the anomalous transport phenomena in connection to
various quantum effects such as the chiral anomaly and spin-orbit
interaction. Motivated by recent measurements of the spin polarization and
alignment, many novel transport theories and models have been developed to
explore dynamical spin polarization of quark gluons plasmas generated in
HIC. Among them, the quantum kinetic theory (QKT) is one of microscopic
theories that has a direct connection to the underlying quantum field
theory. In this colloquium, I will review some of the important findings
and unsettled issues for the spin transport in HIC and related studies by
QKT.