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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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Background: Nuclear deformation provides a crucial characteristic of nuclear structure. Conventionally, the quadrupole deformation length of a nucleus, $\delta_{2}$, has often been determined based on a macroscopic model through a deformed…

The two neutrino and neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{94,96}$Zr, $^{98,100}$Mo, $^{104}$Ru, $^{110}$Pd, $^{128,130}$Te and $^{150}$Nd isotopes for the $0^{+}\to 0^{+}$ transition is studied within the PHFB framework along with an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-03 R. Chandra , K. Chaturvedi , P. K. Rath , P. K. Raina , J. G. Hirsch

The azimuthal hadronic flow observed in ultra-relativistic ion-ion collisions provides a sensitive probe of many-body ground-state correlations in the colliding nuclei. In particular, collective correlations associated with nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Stavros Bofos , Yi Li , Chenrong Ding , Benjamin Bally , Thomas Duguet , Mikael Frosini , Jiangming Yao

Radial flow, a key collective phenomenon in heavy-ion collisions, manifests itself through event-by-event fluctuations of transverse-momentum ($p_{\mathrm{T}}$) spectra. The $p_{\mathrm{T}}$-differential radial flow observable,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Somadutta Bhatta , Aman Dimri , Jiangyong Jia

In the hydrodynamic model description of heavy ion collisions, the final-state anisotropic flow $v_n$ are linearly related to the strength of the multi-pole shape of the distribution of nucleons in the transverse plane $\varepsilon_n$,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Jiangyong Jia

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

Flow fluctuations in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collision can be probed by studying the momentum dependent correlations or the factorization-breaking coefficients between flow harmonics in separate kinematic bins (transverse momentum or…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-06 Rupam Samanta , Piotr Bozek

The shape of atomic nuclei is often interpreted to possess a quadrupole deformation that fluctuates around some average profile. We investigate the impact of nuclear shape fluctuations on the initial state geometry in heavy ion collisions,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Aman Dimri , Somadutta Bhatta , 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

We discuss the torque effect in the initial fireball formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, manifesting itself, on the event-by-event basis, in a relative angle between the principal axes of the transverse momentum distributions in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Wojciech Broniowski , Piotr Bozek , Joao Moreira
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