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Gen-Hui Li

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Global polarization of $\Lambda$, $\Xi^{-}$, and $\Omega^{-}$ hyperons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC BES-II energies

We investigate the global spin polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons and the multi-strange hyperons $\Xi^{-}$ and $\Omega^{-}$ in Au+Au collisions across the RHIC Beam Energy Scan II (BES-II) energy range, $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=7.7$--$27$ GeV. The polarization is computed using the modified Cooper--Frye formula, which includes contributions from thermal vorticity, the thermal shear tensor, and the gradient of the baryon chemical potential, combined with the (3+1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamic framework CLVisc with SMASH initial conditions. We present the global polarization as a function of collision energy, centrality, transverse momentum, and rapidity. We find that the global polarization of $\Omega^{-}$ is systematically larger than those of $\Lambda$ and $\Xi^{-}$ because of its larger spin quantum number, but it remains below the central value of the recent STAR measurement. This discrepancy may suggest that additional mechanisms, such as spin correlations among strange quarks inside the $\Omega^{-}$, could contribute to the observed $\Omega^{-}$ polarization. We also find that the global-polarization splitting between hyperons and anti-hyperons increases toward lower collision energies and is dominated by the chemical-potential-gradient contribution.

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Late-time attractors in relativistic spin hydrodynamics in Gubser flow

We investigate the late-time asymptotic solutions and attractor structure of the spin density in minimal causal spin hydrodynamics in Gubser flow. After deriving the differential equation governing the spin density, we obtain its late-time asymptotic solutions and identify both attractors and repellers in the corresponding numerical solutions. We then map these solutions back to flat Minkowski space and find parameter regions where the spin density exhibits a power-law decay. We further show that, when the characteristic length scale of the system is much larger than the proper time, several components of the spin density can decay as slowly as conventional thermodynamic variables in relativistic hydrodynamics. In this regime, the spin density behaves as a hydrodynamic mode governed by the late-time scaling laws of the flow.

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