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In non-central high energy heavy ion collisions, the colliding system posses a huge orbital angular momentum in the direction opposite to the normal of the reaction plane. Due to the spin-orbit coupling in strong interaction, such huge orbital angular momentum leads to the polarization of quarks and antiquarks in the same direction. This effect, known as the global polarization effect, has been recently observed by STAR Collaboration at RHIC that confirms the theoretical prediction made more than ten years ago. The discovery has attracted much attention to the study of spin effects in heavy ion collision. It opens a new window to study properties of QGP and a new direction in high energy heavy ion physics—Spin Physics in Heavy Ion Collisions. In this chapter, we review the original ideas and calculations that lead to the predictions. We emphasize the role played by spin-orbit coupling in high energy spin physics and discuss the new opportunities and challenges in this connection.
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We thank in particular many collaborators for excellent collaborations on this subject. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11890713, 11675092, 11535012, 11935007, 11861131009 and 11890714), and by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Division of Nuclear Physics, of the U.S. Department of Energy under grant No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant No. ACI-1550228 within the framework of the JETSCAPE Collaboration.
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Gao, JH., Liang, ZT., Wang, Q., Wang, XN. (2021). Global Polarization Effect and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Strong Interaction. In: Becattini, F., Liao, J., Lisa, M. (eds) Strongly Interacting Matter under Rotation. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 987. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71427-7_7
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