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Low Energy Nuclear Structure from Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Light Ion collisions

Nuclear Theory 2014-11-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The search for specific signals in ultra-relativistic heavy-light ion collisions addressing intrinsic geometric features of nuclei may open a new window to low energy nuclear structure. We discuss specifically the phenomenon of {\alpha}-clustering in 12^{12}C when colliding with 208^{208}Pb at almost the speed of light.

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@article{arxiv.1411.5807,
  title  = {Low Energy Nuclear Structure from Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Light Ion collisions},
  author = {Enrique Ruiz Arriola and Wojciech Broniowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.5807},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

12 pages, 9 figures. Talk by ERA at 37th Brazilian Workshop on Nuclear Physics, 8-12 September 2014, Maresias, SP, Brazil