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Collective nuclear vibrations and initial state shape fluctuations in central Pb+Pb collisions: resolving the $v_2$ to $v_3$ puzzle

Nuclear Theory 2020-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We have studied, for the first time, the influence of the collective quantum effects in the nuclear wave functions on the azimuthal anisotropy coefficients ϵ2,3\epsilon_{2,3} in the central Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC energies. With the help of the energy weighted sum rule we demonstrate that the classical treatment with the Woods-Saxon nuclear density overestimates the mean square quadrupole moment of the 208^{208}Pb nucleus by a factor of 2.2\sim 2.2. The Monte-Carlo Glauber simulation of the central Pb+Pb collisions accounting for the restriction on the quadrupole moment leads to ϵ2/ϵ30.8\epsilon_2/\epsilon_3\approx 0.8 which allows to resolve the v2v_2-to-v3v_3 puzzle.

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@article{arxiv.2008.07304,
  title  = {Collective nuclear vibrations and initial state shape fluctuations in central Pb+Pb collisions: resolving the $v_2$ to $v_3$ puzzle},
  author = {B. G. Zakharov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.07304},
  year   = {2020}
}

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