[RBRC seminar] Probing baryon-rich nuclear matter with Λ hyperons and pions

by Prof. Malena Tejeda-Yeomans (Universidad de Colima)

Thursday 28 May 2026, 12:30 → 14:30 US/Eastern

2-160 (https://bnl.zoomgov.com/j/1600983728?pwd=RAD7OLcqre7Ycsp6JfFp6HAnpyLxex.1)

In this talk I review our recent and ongoing studies of nuclear matter created in heavy-ion collisions at baryon-rich energies using complementary observables. I start with a discussion of our results on Λ hyperon global polarization within a core-corona framework that incorporates a field-theoretical calculation of the spin-relaxation time in the QGP (https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07501), comparing these results with current global polarization measurements. Next, I present benchmark results for simulated two-pion Lévy-stable Bose-Einstein correlations, as a baseline for future studies at baryon-rich energies, and I will review the status of simulations using a set of improved EoS to probe criticality. Finally, I discuss our current efforts to extend this femtoscopic framework to probe chiral symmetry restoration through the joint analysis of two- and three-pion correlations.