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Studying short-range nuclear correlations using relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Nuclear Theory 2023-12-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Recently, a method was developed for implementing arbitrary short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations in Monte Carlo sampled nuclei (as well as deformations of the 1-body nuclear density). We use this method to implement realistic 2-body correlations in a sample of nuclei for use in simulations of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and we quantify the statistical benefits. These results demonstrate that the method can be used to easily implement an arbitrary correlation function, and systematically study the effects of correlations using significantly less resources than is necessary with traditional methods.

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@article{arxiv.2312.10129,
  title  = {Studying short-range nuclear correlations using relativistic heavy-ion collisions},
  author = {Matthew Luzum and João Paulo Picchetti and Mauricio Hippert and Jean-Yves Ollitrault},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.10129},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings for Quark Matter 2023

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