Vector resonances spin alignement as a probe of spin hydrodynamics and freeze-out

Abstract

We argue that a detailed analysis of the spin alignement of vector mesons can serve as a probe of two little-understood aspects of spin dynamics in the vortical fluid: The degree of relaxation between vorticity and parton spin polarization, and the degree of coherence of the hadron wavefunction at freeze-out. We illustrate these with a coalescence model.

Comments: Accepted for publication, Phys.Rev.C