Probing the neutron skin with ultrarelativistic isobaric collisions
Nuclear Theory
2020-11-25 v2 Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Particle production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions depends on the details of the nucleon density distributions in the colliding nuclei. We demonstrate that the charged hadron multiplicity distributions in isobaric collisions at ultrarelativistic energies provide a novel approach to determine the poorly known neutron density distributions and thus the neutron skin thickness in finite nuclei, which can in turn put stringent constraints on the nuclear symmetry energy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1910.06170,
title = {Probing the neutron skin with ultrarelativistic isobaric collisions},
author = {Hanlin Li and Hao-jie Xu and Ying Zhou and Xiaobao Wang and Jie Zhao and Lie-Wen Chen and Fuqiang Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.06170},
year = {2020}
}
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6 pages, 4 figures, published version