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Previous flow measurements in small collision systems were mostly based on highly asymmetric collisions ($p$+Pb, $p$+Au, $d$+Au, $^{3}$He+Au), where both nuclear structure and subnucleonic fluctuations are important. Comparing these…

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The collective structure of atomic nuclei intermediate between spherical and quadrupole deformed structure presents challenges to theoretical understanding. However, models have recently been proposed in terms of potentials which are soft…

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Single-particle removal reactions are becoming an important tool for studying radioactive nuclei. The nuclei far from stability may reveal new regions of large deformation. We discuss the influence of the projectile deformation on the…

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Hypothesis: Immiscible liquids are commonly used to achieve unique functions in many applications, where the breakup of compound droplets in airflow is an important process. Due to the existence of the liquid-liquid interface, compound…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-27 Zhikun Xu , Yue Zhang , Tianyou Wang , Zhizhao Che

We present an outline of an extensive study of the effects of collective couplings and nuclear deformations on integrated cross sections as well as on angular distributions in a consistent manner for neutron-induced reactions on nuclei in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-11-05 G. P. A. Nobre , A. Palumbo , D. Brown , M. Herman , S. Hoblit , F. S. Dietrich

The directed flow of identified hadrons is studied within the parton-hadron-string-dynamics (PHSD) approach for the asymmetric system Cu+Au in non-central collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV. It is emphasized that due to the difference…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-12-11 V. Voronyuk , V. D. Toneev , S. A. Voloshin , W. Cassing

Evaluation of the angular distribution function of particles scattered in an amorphous medium is improved by deforming the integration path in the Fourier integral representation into the complex plane. That allows us to present the…

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Recent high-energy heavy ion collision experiments have revealed that some atomic nuclei exhibit unusual softness and significant shape fluctuations. In this work, we use the fully self-consistent mean-field theory to identify all even-even…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Minh-Loc Bui , Le-Anh Nguyen , Panagiota Papakonstantinou , Naftali Auerbach

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

The strategy and techniques for analyzing anisotropic flow (directed, elliptic, etc.) in relativistic nuclear collisions are presented. The emphasis is on the use of the Fourier expansion of azimuthal distributions. We present formulae…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-09-08 A. M. Poskanzer , S. A. Voloshin

Fluid deformation controls myriad processes in random flows including mixing and dispersion, stress development in complex fluids, colloid transport and deposition, droplet breakup and emulsification, fluid-structure interaction, chemical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-07 Daniel Lester , Marco Dentz

Peculiar phenomena have been observed in analyses of anisotropic flow ($v_n$) fluctuations in ultracentral nucleus-nucleus collisions: The fourth-order cumulant of the elliptic flow ($v_2$) distribution changes sign. In addition, the ATLAS…

(Pseudo)spin symmetries play vital roles in nuclear physics and have been studied extensively in spherical nuclei. In this work, possible spin and pseudospin symmetries in deformed nuclei are examined by solving a coupled-channel Dirac…

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We consider a two-phase Darcy flow in a fractured porous medium consisting in a matrix flow coupled with a tangential flow in the fractures, described as a network of planar surfaces. This flow model is also coupled with the mechanical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Francesco Bonaldi , Konstantin Brenner , Jérôme Droniou , Roland Masson

The influence of the underlying flow topology on the shape and size of sub-Kolmogorov droplets dispersed in a turbulent flow is of considerable interest in many industrial and scientific applications. In this work we study the deformation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Vamsi Spandan , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

In biology, cells undergo deformations under the action of flow caused by the fluid surrounding them. These flows lead to shape changes and instabilities that have been explored in detail for single component vesicles. However, cell…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-15 Anirudh Venkatesh , Vivek Narsimhan

A phenomenological model for the dissipation of scalar fluctuations due to the straining by the fluid motion is proposed in this letter. An explicit equation is obtained for the time evolution of the probability distribution function of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Antoine Venaille , Joel Sommeria

We examine the hydrodynamics of systems with spontaneously broken multipolar symmetries using a systematic effective field theory. We focus on the simplest non-trivial setting: a system with charge and dipole symmetry, but without momentum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-12 Charles Stahl , Marvin Qi , Paolo Glorioso , Andrew Lucas , Rahul Nandkishore

We present a novel ``imaging-by-smashing" approach for probing nuclear deformation in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. By analyzing anisotropic-flow ($v_n$) and mean transverse momentum ($\left[p_T\right]$)-based observables in collisions…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-12-08 Chunjian Zhang

We study a model describing the slow flow of a fluid through a deformable, porous, elastic solid undergoing small deformations. The stress-strain relationship of the solid incorporates nonlinear effects, formulated as a perturbation of the…

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