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Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Friday·July 31, 2026

12 papers4 primary·8 cross-listed

  1. 01

    CLVisc Agent for autonomous relativistic hydrodynamics studies

    Qi Wang🇨🇳 · Long-Gang Pang🇨🇳 · Shi Pu🇨🇳 · Xin-Nian Wang🇨🇳

    We enable large language model (LLM) agents to autonomously perform end-to-end hydrodynamic simulations of the quark-gluon plasma evolution and calculation of final hadron spectra in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We design a meta skill that allows an agent to explore a project's source code, craft a specialized skill, and iteratively refine it. Applying this meta skill to the (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic code CLVisc, the agent builds a CLVisc skill encoding its operational knowledge and then independently executes full scientific workflows: designing parameter scans, running simulations, comparing ensemble results, and producing publication-ready figures. Crucially, the agent draws on literature-informed heavy-ion physics to select physically meaningful observables and interpret outcomes without explicit instruction. We demonstrate the pipeline in two scenarios: temperature-dependent shear viscosity over entropy density , and nuclear-structure effects in O+O collisions at ~TeV using four \textit{ab initio} descriptions of O. In both, the agent plans, executes, and analyzes autonomously, devising new initial-state observables to explain final observations and extract qualitative knowledge. The meta skill is agnostic to code versions and Monte Carlo generators, promising future multi-agent systems in high-energy nuclear physics.

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  2. 02

    Configuration crossing, shape evolution, and odd-proton polarization in yttrium isotopes

    Noam Gavrielov

    The odd-mass Y isotopes provide a testing ground for how an unpaired proton modifies an abrupt collective structural evolution. A configuration-mixing Bose-Fermi description shows that the lowest negative- and positive-parity states undergo a crossing of normal and intruder configurations near neutron number , intertwined with an evolution from weak coupling of a quasiparticle to a near-spherical core toward strong coupling to a deformed core. To isolate the role of the odd proton, a differential charge-radius polarization observable is introduced as the difference between the isotope shifts of the odd-mass chain with those of the corresponding even-even cores. Its pronounced peak at and sign reversal at reveal a localized modification of the core evolution in the critical region. Energy levels, wave-function content, electromagnetic moments, two-neutron separation energies, and coherent-state energy surfaces support this interpretation.

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  3. 03

    Coulomb and nuclear polarization of the nucleon density in the dinuclear configuration of the Ca + Pb system

    Bakhodir Kayumov

    The change of the nucleon density distribution of a heavy nucleus caused by the presence of a second nucleus at a fixed centre-to-centre distance is studied in the framework of the deformed Woods--Saxon mean field. The single-particle problem of one nucleus has been solved by diagonalization in a cylindrical harmonic oscillator basis with the external field of the partner nucleus included in the Hamiltonian before diagonalization. The external field consists of the Coulomb potential of the partner charge distribution and of the nuclear part obtained by double folding of the Migdal density-dependent effective nucleon-nucleon interaction, in the same form as it is used in the dinuclear system approach. The induced density change and the corresponding changes of the quadrupole moment, of the mean-square radius and of the interaction energy have been calculated for the Ca + Pb system at separations -- fm. The results are compared with the first-order (linear-response) treatment of the same external field. The polarization of both partners is found to be dominated by the repulsive Coulomb tidal field, which produces an oblate deformation of the density, while the attractive nuclear field acts in the opposite sense and partially cancels the Coulomb contribution at the smallest separations. The polarization energy is found to be a dipole quantity, the induced quadrupole deformation contributing only a few percent of it. The limits of validity of the one-centre description are established quantitatively.

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  4. 04

    Relativistic transport near moving interfaces

    Lorenzo Gavassino🇬🇧

    We study linear disturbances localized near planar surfaces moving at constant velocity in relativistic media. Depending on the physical setting, the surface may represent a moving obstacle, a thermal boundary, or an external source, providing a unified description of boundary layers, wakes, and the asymptotic tails of shock waves. The central result is a propagator representation of the interface solution that yields a geometric characterization of these phenomena. Using a Laplace-transform formulation, we show that the solution is a superposition of modes with purely imaginary frequency and wavenumber. For a given interface velocity, the admissible modes are selected by the line in the plane. As varies, this line sweeps across the spectrum, providing a unified geometric description of interface-localized solutions for arbitrary interface velocities. We illustrate the formalism with applications to relativistic hydrodynamics and kinetic theory.

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