Recent measurements by various experiments in ultraperipheral collisions have observed spin-interference in ${\rho }^0$ photoproduction, marking a breakthrough in Fermi-scale quantum interference experiments. Building on this, the STAR Collaboration extended the measurement to hadronic heavy-ion collisions, where significant rescattering effects on ${\rho }^0$ mesons were expected. In this study, we investigate how these rescattering effects influence the measurement of spin-interference. By embedding ${\rho }^0$ mesons produced via photoproduction, modeled by the vector-meson dominance model, into the ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics framework, we estimate the impact on the $cos2\varphi$ and $cos4\varphi$ modulations, where $\varphi$ is the angle between ${\rho }^0$ and one of the daughters' (${\pi }^{\pm }$) transverse momenta. The results indicate a significant suppression of the $cos2\varphi$ modulation, while the $cos4\varphi$ modulation remains largely unaffected, which provides insight for understanding the difference due to rescattering effects between experimental measurements and theoretical predictions for ${\rho }^0$ photoproduction in heavy-ion collisions.

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• Particle & resonance production
• Photonuclear reactions
• Relativistic heavy-ion collisions
• 190 ≤ A ≤ 219