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$^{16}\mathrm{O}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ at RHIC and the LHC comparing $\alpha$ clustering vs substructure

Nuclear Theory 2021-10-13 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Collisions of light and heavy nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have been shown to be sensitive to nuclear structure. With a proposed 16O16O^{16}\mathrm{O}^{16}\mathrm{O} run at the LHC and RHIC we study the potential for finding α\alpha clustering in 16^{16}O. Here we use the state-of-the-art iEBE-VISHNU package with 16^{16}O nucleonic configurations from {\rm ab initio} nuclear lattice simulations. This setup was tuned using a Bayesian analysis on pPb and PbPb systems. We find that the 16O16O^{16}\mathrm{O}^{16}\mathrm{O} system always begins far from equilibrium and that at LHC and RHIC it approaches the regime of hydrodynamic applicability only at very late times. Finally, by taking ratios of flow harmonics we are able to find measurable differences between α\alpha-clustering, nucleonic, and subnucleonic degrees of freedom in the initial state.

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@article{arxiv.2103.03345,
  title  = {$^{16}\mathrm{O}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ at RHIC and the LHC comparing $\alpha$ clustering vs substructure},
  author = {Nicholas Summerfield and Bing-Nan Lu and Christopher Plumberg and Dean Lee and Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler and Anthony Timmins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.03345},
  year   = {2021}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures, 92 references

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