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In heavy ion collisions, elliptic flow $v_2$ and radial flow, characterized by event-wise average transverse momentum $[p_{\mathrm{T}}]$, are related to the shape and size of the overlap region, which are sensitive to the shape of colliding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Jiangyong Jia , Shengli Huang , Chunjian Zhang

Recent studies have shown that the shape and radial profile of the colliding nuclei have strong influences on the initial condition of the heavy ion collisions and the subsequent development of the anisotropic flow. Using A Multi-Phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-29 Zhiyong Lu , Mingrui Zhao , Jiangyong Jia , You Zhou

In the hydrodynamic model description of heavy ion collisions, the elliptic flow $v_2$ and triangular flow $v_3$ are sensitive to the quadrupole deformation $\beta_2$ and octupole deformation $\beta_3$ of the colliding nuclei. The relations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-26 Chunjian Zhang , Jiangyong Jia

Most atomic nuclei exhibit ellipsoidal shapes characterized by quadrupole deformation $\beta_2$ and triaxiality $\gamma$, and sometimes even a pear-like octupole deformation $\beta_3$. The STAR experiment introduced a new…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-24 STAR Collaboration

Most atomic nuclei are deformed with a quadrupole shape described by its overall strength $\beta_2$ and triaxiality $\gamma$. The deformation can be accessed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions by measuring the collective flow response of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Jiangyong Jia

In the hydrodynamic framework of heavy-ion collisions, elliptic flow, $v_2$, is sensitive to the quadrupole deformation, $\beta$, of the colliding ions. This enables one to test whether the established knowledge on the low-energy structure…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-04 Giuliano Giacalone , Jiangyong Jia , Chunjian Zhang

Some atomic nuclei exhibit ``pear" shapes arising from octupole deformation ($\beta_3$), though direct experimental evidences for such exotic shapes remains scarce. Low-energy model studies suggest $^{238}$U may have a modest octupole…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Chunjian Zhang , Jiangyong Jia , Jinhui Chen , Chun Shen , Lumeng Liu

In the hydrodynamical description of heavy-ion collisions, the elliptic flow $\mathrm{v_{2}}$ and triangular flow $\mathrm{v_{3}}$ are sensitive to the quadrupole deformation $\mathrm{\beta_{2}}$ of the colliding nuclei. We produce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-12 Saraswati Pandey , B. K. Singh

The notion of the "size" of nucleons and their constituents plays a pivotal role in the current paradigm of the formation and the fluctuations of the quark-gluon plasma produced in high-energy nuclear collision experiments. We report on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-09 Giuliano Giacalone , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen

Relativistic heavy ion collisions provide a unique opportunity to study the shape of colliding nuclei, even up to higher-order multiple deformations. In this work, several observables that are sensitive to quadrupole and hexadecapole…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-29 Zaining Wang , Jinhui Chen , Hao-jie Xu , Jie Zhao

In this letter, we present the study of the role of octupole deformation in non-spherical nuclei in most-central Pb--Pb collisions at the LHC energy regime. The sensitivity of octupole deformation $\beta_3$ to the QGP observables is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-07 Saraswati Pandey , B. K. Singh

Relativistic nuclear collisions have emerged as a new tool for probing many-body correlations of nucleons in the ground states of atomic nuclei. Here, we investigate the connection between three-nucleon correlations inside nuclei and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Hadi Mehrabpour , Giuliano Giacalone , Matthew W. Luzum

This work establishes a deep connection between two seemingly distant branches of nuclear physics: nuclear structure and relativistic heavy-ion collisions. At the heart of this connection is the recent discovery made at particle colliders…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-05 Giuliano Giacalone

Collisions between nuclei at ultrarelativistic energies produce a color-deconfined plasma that expands explosively and rapidly reverts to the color-confined (hadronic) state. In non-central collisions, the zone of hot matter is transversely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-06-10 M. A. Lisa , E. Frodermann , G. Graef , M. Mitrovski , E. Mount , H. Petersen , M. Bleicher

This study employs the isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck model to simulate intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions between prolate nuclei $^{24}$Mg. The emphasis is on investigating the influence of centrality and orientation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-12 Xiao-Hua Fan , Zu-Xing Yang , Peng-Hui Chen , Shunji Nishimura , Zhi-Pan Li

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the radial flow of the fireball, usually characterized by transverse momentum spectra of final-state particles, encodes essential information about the hot and dense nuclear matter created in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-05 Jie Zhu , Xiang-Yu Wu , Guang-You Qin

The particle momentum anisotropy ($v_n$) produced in relativistic nuclear collisions is considered to be a response of the initial geometry or the spatial anisotropy $\epsilon_n$ of the system formed in these collisions. The linear…

Anisotropic flow is accredited to have effects from the initial state geometry and fluctuations in the nuclear overlap region. The elliptic flow ($v_2$) and triangular flow ($v_3$) coefficients of the final state particles are expected to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-13 Suraj Prasad , Neelkamal Mallick , Sushanta Tripathy , Raghunath Sahoo

We investigate how the initial geometry of a heavy-ion collision is transformed into final flow observables by solving event-by-event ideal hydrodynamics with realistic fluctuating initial conditions. We study quantitatively to what extent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-06 Fernando G. Gardim , Frederique Grassi , Matthew Luzum , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We have investigated the performance of anisotropic flows $\langle v_n^2 \rangle$, transverse momentum fluctuations $\langle \delta p_T^2 \rangle $, and their correlations $\langle v_n^2 \delta p_T \rangle$ in central collisions at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-23 Hai-Cheng Wang , Song-Jie Li , Lu-Meng Liu , Jun Xu , Zhong-Zhou Ren
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