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Impact of nuclear structure on longitudinal flow decorrelations in high-energy isobar collisions

Nuclear Theory 2023-07-20 v2

Abstract

Fluctuations of harmonic flow along pseudorapidity, known as flow decorrelations, are an important probe of the initial state geometry of the quark-gluon plasma. The flow decorrelations are shown to be sensitive to the collective structure of the colliding nuclei, as revealed clearly by comparing collisions of isobars, 96^{96}Ru+96^{96}Ru and 96^{96}Zr+96^{96}Zr, which have different nuclear structures. The flow decorrelations in central collisions are mostly sensitive to nuclear deformations, while those in the mid-central collisions are primarily sensitive to differences in skin thickness between 96^{96}Ru and 96^{96}Zr. Longitudinal flow decorrelations in heavy-ion collisions are a new tool to probe the structure of colliding nuclei.

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@article{arxiv.2307.09415,
  title  = {Impact of nuclear structure on longitudinal flow decorrelations in high-energy isobar collisions},
  author = {Maowu Nie and Chunjian Zhang and Zhenyu Chen and Li Yi and Jiangyong Jia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.09415},
  year   = {2023}
}

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It's almost the same as 2208.05416, i will simply replace the old one