https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429610010
Vector meson polarisation in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC
CERN
* e-mail: luca.micheletti@cern.ch
Published online: 26 June 2024
Heavy quarks, i.e. charm and beauty, are produced in the initial stage of heavy-ion collisions, on a time scale shorter than the medium formation time, and are sensitive to the large initial magnetic field produced perpendicular to the reaction plane, defined by the impact parameter direction and beam direction, in non-central heavy-ion collisions. In the presence of a large initial magnetic field, the charm quark can be polarised. The quark polarisation is then expected to be transferred to the hadron in the hadronisation process. We will present the first measurement of D*+ polarisation in Pb–Pb collisions at √SNN = 5.02 TeV, exploiting the large data sample collected by the ALICE Collaboration during the LHC Run 2 and we will compare these new results with the existing J/ψ polarisation measurements.
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