Analytic model studies of polarized baryon production

Abstract

We investigate known exact solutions of hydrodynamics and derive analytic formulas for the polarization of baryons produced at freeze-out. Such polarization (observed in high energy heavy-ion experiments) carries information on the time evolution of the quark-gluon plasma (sQGP), and our results give first analytic insight into the connection between this type of measurements and dynamical properties of the sQGP (e.g. vorticity). We present results for a rotating and acceleratingly expanding solution and also give hints on how to calculate the polarization using a rotating extension of the Buda-Lund parameterization.