Quark polarization from parton scatterings in heavy ion collisions

Abstract

Based on the result in our previous work, we calculate the polarization of quarks from parton scatterings in high energy heavy ion collisions. The result is compared with the STAR data at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV.

Comments: Contribution to the Proceedings of the 28th international conference on ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions, Quark Matter 2019