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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 this work, we present a study on the effects of nuclear deformation ($\beta_2$,$\beta_3$) and surface diffuseness ($a$) on the charged hadron multiplicity ($N_{\mathrm{ch}}$) and elliptic flow ($v_2$), obtained in symmetric isobaric…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Akash Das , Satya Ranjan Nayak , B. K. Singh

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

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

Fluctuations in the initial transverse energy-density distribution lead to anisotropic flows as observed in central high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Studies of longitudinal fluctuations of the anisotropic flows can shed further light on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-24 Long-Gang Pang , Guang-You Qin , Victor Roy , Xin-Nian Wang , Guo-Liang Ma

We use (3+1)-dimensional hydrodynamics with exact longitudinal boost-invariance to study the influence of collision centrality and initial energy density on the transverse flow pattern and the angular distributions of particles emitted near…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-09 Peter F. Kolb , Josef Sollfrank , Ulrich Heinz

The presence of $\alpha$-clustered structure in the light nuclei produces different exotic shapes in nuclear structure studies at low energies. Recent phenomenological studies suggest that collision of heavy nuclei with $\alpha$-clustered…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-02 Pingal Dasgupta , Rupa Chatterjee , Guo-Liang Ma

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-20 Maowu Nie , Chunjian Zhang , Zhenyu Chen , Li Yi , Jiangyong Jia

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Maowu Nie , Chunjian Zhang , Zhenyu Chen , Li Yi , Jiangyong Jia

We report results from a multiphase transport (AMPT) model on the rapidity and system size dependence of charged hadron anisotropic flows in nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Che Ming Ko , Lie-Wen Chen

Non-trivial geometrical effects in relativistic central collisions of deformed nuclei are studied using a simple version of optical Glauber model. For very small impact parameters large centrality and eccentricity fluctuations are observed.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Filip

The correlations between flow harmonics $v_n$ for $n=2$, 3 and 4 and mean transverse momentum $[p_\mathrm{T}]$ in $^{129}$Xe+$^{129}$Xe and $^{208}$Pb+$^{208}$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.44$ TeV and 5.02 TeV, respectively,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-10-24 ATLAS Collaboration

We study symmetric and asymmetric cumulants as well as rapidity-even dipolar flow in ${}^{16}$O+${}^{16}$O collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$~GeV to explore $\alpha$-clustering phenomena in light nuclei within the viscous relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Kaiser Shafi , Sandeep Chatterjee

While relativistic heavy-ion collisions become an alternative way of studying nucleus structure, the accurate extraction of nucleus structure could be hampered by the uncertainty of nucleon size, and the latter has attracted people's…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-14 Hai-Cheng Wang , Song-Jie Li , Jun Xu , Zhong-Zhou Ren

Many probes are proposed to determine the quark-gluon plasma and explore its properties in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Some of them are related to initial states of the collisions, such as collective flow, Hanbury-Brown-Twiss…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 Yu-Gang Ma , Song Zhang

Azimuthal anisotropy is a key observation made in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. This phenomenon has played a crucial role in the development of the field over the last two decades. In addition to its interest for studying the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-10-20 Jean-Yves Ollitrault

To assess the properties of the quark-gluon plasma formed in nuclear collisions, the Pearson correlation coefficient between flow harmonics and mean transverse momentum, $\rho\left(v_{n}^{2},\left[p_{\mathrm{T}}\right]\right)$, reflecting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-08 Chunjian Zhang , Jiangyong Jia , Shengli Huang

Many features of multiparticle production in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions reflect the collision geometry and other collision characteristics determining the initial conditions. As the initial conditions affect to a different degree…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergei A. Voloshin

RHIC and LHC have injected $^{16}\rm O$ nuclei in their accelerator complexes with a focus on investigating collectivity and the origin of quark-gluon plasma signatures in small collision systems. The $^{16}\rm O$ nuclei are known to…