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Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Thursday·August 11, 2022

9 papers2 primary·7 cross-listed

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    Impact of nuclear structure on longitudinal flow decorrelations in high-energy isobar collisions

    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 of the colliding nuclei, as revealed clearly by comparing collisions of isobars, Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr, which have different nuclear structures. The flow decorrelations in central collisions are mostly sensitive to nuclear deformations, while those in the mid-central collisions are primarily sensitive to differences in skin thickness between Ru and Zr. Longitudinal flow decorrelations in heavy-ion collisions are a new tool to probe the structure of colliding nuclei.

    nucl-thnucl-exPLB(2023)·21 citations

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