Possible octupole deformation of ${}^{208}$Pb and the ultracentral $v_2$ to $v_3$ puzzle

Patrick Carzon, Skandaprasad Rao, Matthew Luzum +2

Recent measurements have established the sensitivity of ultracentral heavy-ion collisions to the deformation parameters of non-spherical nuclei. In the case of ${}^{129}$Xe collis…