Vorticity in peripheral collisions at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research and at the JINR Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility
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2014-08-29Metadata
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.90.021904Abstract
The flow vorticity development is studied in the reaction plane of peripheral relativistic heavy-ion reactions at energies just above the threshold of the transition to a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Earlier calculations at higher energies with larger initial angular momentum predicted significant vorticity leading to measurable Λ polarization. Here we discuss the possibility of vorticity and circulation in dense plasma at lower temperatures. In low-viscosity QGP this vorticity still remains significant.