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F Becattini1, M Buzzegoli1, A Palermo1
1Università di Firenze and INFN Sezione di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), Italy.
Abstract:
We show that the inclusion of a recently found additional term of the spin polarization vector at local equilibrium which is linear in the symmetrized gradients of the velocity field, and the assumption of hadron production at constant temperature restore the quantitative agreement between hydrodynamic model predictions and local polarization measurements in relativistic heavy ion collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200 GeV. The longitudinal component of the spin polarization vector turns out to be very sensitive to the temperature value, with a good fit around 155 MeV. The implications of this finding are discussed.
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