Strongly interacting matter under rotation

¹ School of Physics and Nuclear Energy Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
² Department of Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA.
³ Key Laboratory of Quarks and Lepton Physics (MOE) and Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China.
⁴ Physics Department and Center for Particle Physics and Field Theory, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
⁵ Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
⁶ Physics Department and Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter, Indiana University, 2401 N Milo B. Sampson Lane, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA.

^* e-mail: jiang_y@buaa.edu.cn
^** e-mail: linz@ecu.edu
^*** e-mail: huangxuguang@fudan.edu.cn
^**** e-mail: liaoji@indiana.edu

Published online: 2 February 2018

Abstract

The vorticity-driven effects are systematically studied in various aspects. With AMPT the distributions of vorticity has been investigated in heavy ion collisions with different collision parameters. Taking the rotational polarization effect into account a generic condensate suppression mechanism is discussed and quantitatively studied with NJL model. And in chiral restored phase the chiral vortical effects would generate a new collective mode, i.e. the chiral vortical wave. Using the rotating quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions as a concrete example, we show the formation of induced flavor quadrupole in QGP and estimate the elliptic flow splitting effect for Λ baryons.