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Hao-Lei Chen1,2, Wei-Jie Fu2,3, Xu-Guang Huang1,2,4
1Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Shanghai 200433, China.
Abstract:
In this Letter, we examine the impact of QCD phase transitions on the quark spin fluctuations and correlations. We propose the quark-antiquark correlation, which relates to the vector meson spin alignment and the Λ-Λ[over ¯] correlation, and can be used as a novel probe of the critical end point (CEP) in the QCD phase diagram. Using the Nambu-Jona-Lanisio model, we qualitatively study the properties of quark-antiquark spin correlations. Our findings reveal a peak structure near the CEP of the chiral phase transition, which may serve as an experimental signature of the CEP and account for the non-monotonic behavior of ϕ meson alignment at low collision energies observed recently in experiments.
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