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Quenching of polarized jets

Wen-Hao Yao, Xiaowen Li, Hui Dong*, and Shu-Yi Wei†

  • Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science, Key Laboratory of Particle Physics and Particle Irradiation (MOE), Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China

  • *Contact author: hdong@sdu.edu.cn
  • †Contact author: shuyi@sdu.edu.cn
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Phys. Rev. D 113, 074014 – Published 13 April, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/rnfb-w6gn

Abstract

Jets produced in association with a Z0 or W± 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, particularly the circularly polarized gluon hadronization, and of spin-dependent medium effects in the QGP.

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Phys. Rev. D 113, 074014– Published 13 April, 2026
  • Received 18 November 2025
  • Accepted 24 March 2026
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