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Wen-Hao Yao

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Entanglement of back-to-back gluon pair

We investigate the polarization correlation of back-to-back gluon pairs in unpolarized $pp$ collisions and compute their density matrix. For gluon pairs produced through $q\bar{q}$ annihilation, the linear polarization correlation is sizable, even reaching unity when the final-state gluons are emitted perpendicular to the beam direction in the $q\bar{q}$ rest frame. Combining with the fact that their helicity remains maximally correlated across different scattering angle, the gluon pair system thus resides in a maximally entangled Bell state in this configuration. In contrast, for the $gg\to gg$ channel, both the helicity and linear polarization correlations are considerably suppressed, producing a separable state. Nonetheless, it still retains an appreciable linear polarization correlation of about $11\%$ at central scattering in unpolarized collisions. The linearly polarization correlation of the back-to-back gluon pair can further increase when the incoming gluons are circularly polarized. Employing the anisotropy of energy correlators, we demonstrate that the linear polarization correlation of gluon pairs can be extracted from the $\cos 2ΔΦ$ modulation.

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Quenching of polarized jets

Jets produced in association with a $Z^{0}$ or $W^{\pm}$ boson in hadronic collisions are automatically polarized due to the parity violation of weak interaction, making these processes ideal for understanding the spin transfer from polarized partons to polarized hadrons. Furthermore, leveraging this feature, we can also employ the weak-boson-tagged process to study the quenching phenomenon of polarized jets, an aspect that has rarely been discussed in the literature. In this work, we compute the polarization of $Λ$ hyperons in $pp$ collisions and investigate the nuclear modification due to the jet-medium interaction in $AA$ collisions. Our results highlight this process as a valuable probe of polarized parton hadronization and of spin-dependent medium effects in the QGP.

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