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Learning Nuclear Structure with AI: Radii and Collectivity
Giuliano Giacalone, Sokratis Trifinopoulos, Mike Williams
Low-energy nuclear structure is encoded in a broad body of experimental information across the chart of nuclides. Learning how this information is organized across observables and…
Yoctosecond imaging of the ground state of Xe at the Large Hadron Collider
Giuliano Giacalone, Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
Imaging a quantum many-body system requires probes that resolve the coordinates of its constituents in sufficiently large event samples, allowing measurements of correlation functi…
Triaxial shapes and the angular structure of nuclear three-body correlations
Hadi Mehrabpour, Giuliano Giacalone, Matthew W. Luzum
Relativistic nuclear collisions have emerged as a new tool for probing many-body correlations of nucleons in the ground states of atomic nuclei. Here, we investigate the connection…
Nuclear collectivity and the harmonic spectrum of two-body correlations
Jean-Paul Blaizot, Giuliano Giacalone, Alessandro Lovato
High-energy nuclear collisions have opened a new experimental method to reveal collective behavior in nuclear ground states through the lens of many-body correlations of nucleons.…
Topical issue on the intersection of low-energy nuclear structure and high-energy nuclear collisions
T. Duguet, G. Giacalone, V. Somà +1
High-energy heavy-ion physics and low-energy nuclear structure physics have historically been disconnected fields. The hydrodynamic description of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) requ…
The size of the quark-gluon plasma in ultracentral collisions: impact of initial density fluctuations on the average transverse momentum
Fabian Zhou, Giuliano Giacalone, Jean-Yves Ollitrault
Recent experiments have shown that the mean transverse momentum of outgoing particles increases as a function of the particle multiplicity in ultracentral nucl…
Initial spin fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions and where to find them
Giuliano Giacalone, Enrico Speranza
Collective spin phenomena in the final states of heavy-ion collisions are typically understood to originate from vorticity and shear in the quark-gluon plasma. Here, we ask whether…
Angular structure of many-body correlations in atomic nuclei: From nuclear deformations to diffractive vector meson production in collisions
Jean-Paul Blaizot, Giuliano Giacalone
There is growing evidence that high-energy scattering processes involving nuclei can offer unique insights into the many-body correlations present in nuclear ground states, in part…
Revealing the harmonic structure of nuclear two-body correlations in high-energy heavy-ion collisions
Thomas Duguet, Giuliano Giacalone, Sangyong Jeon +1
Smashing nuclei at ultrarelativistic speeds and analyzing the momentum distribution of outgoing debris provides a powerful method to probe the many-body properties of the incoming…
Initial-state-driven spin correlations in high-energy nuclear collisions
Giuliano Giacalone, Enrico Speranza
In the study of spin-polarization phenomena in heavy-ion collisions, it is typically assumed that final-state particles are polarized through thermal vorticity and shear. In this s…
Benchmarking nuclear matrix elements of decay with high-energy nuclear collisions
Yi Li, Xin Zhang, Giuliano Giacalone +1
Reducing uncertainties in the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) remains a critical challenge in designing and interpreting experiments aimed at discovering neutrinoless double beta ($…
Impact parameter dependence of anisotropic flow: Bayesian reconstruction in ultracentral nucleus-nucleus collisions
Mubarak Alqahtani, Rajeev S. Bhalerao, Giuliano Giacalone +2
Peculiar phenomena have been observed in analyses of anisotropic flow () fluctuations in ultracentral nucleus-nucleus collisions: The fourth-order cumulant of the elliptic flo…
Anisotropic flow in fixed-target Pb+Ne collisions as a probe of quark-gluon plasma
Giuliano Giacalone, Wenbin Zhao, Benjamin Bally +19
The System for Measuring Overlap with Gas (SMOG2) at the LHCb detector enables the study of fixed-target ion-ion collisions at relativistic energies ( GeV…
- nucleon-nucleon correlations and their impact on high energy O+O collisions
Chunjian Zhang, Jinhui Chen, Giuliano Giacalone +3
Investigating nucleon-nucleon correlations inherent to the strong nuclear force is one of the core goals in nuclear physics research. We showcase the unique opportunities offered b…
The unexpected uses of a bowling pin: exploiting Ne isotopes for precision characterizations of collectivity in small systems
Giuliano Giacalone, Benjamin Bally, Govert Nijs +16
Whether or not femto-scale droplets of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) are formed in so-called small systems at high-energy colliders is a pressing question in the phenomenology of the st…
Many-body correlations for nuclear physics across scales: from nuclei to quark-gluon plasmas to hadron distributions
Giuliano Giacalone
It is an experimental fact that multi-particle correlations in the final states of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions are sensitive to collective correlations of nucleons in th…
Determination of the neutron skin of Pb from ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions
Giuliano Giacalone, Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
Emergent bulk properties of matter governed by the strong nuclear force give rise to physical phenomena across vastly different scales, ranging from the shape of atomic nuclei to t…
Evidence of Hexadecapole Deformation in Uranium-238 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Wouter Ryssens, Giuliano Giacalone, Björn Schenke +1
There is strong evidence of the failure of hydrodynamic simulations of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) to reproduce data on the elliptic flow of particles in relativistic collisions o…
The shape of gold
Benjamin Bally, Giuliano Giacalone, Michael Bender
Having a detailed theoretical knowledge of the low-energy structure of the heavy odd-mass nucleus Au is of prime interest as the structure of this isotope represents an imp…
There and Sharp Again: The Circle Journey of Nucleons and Energy Deposition
Giuliano Giacalone
A central question in high-energy nuclear phenomenology is how the geometry of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in relativistic nuclear collisions is precisely shaped. In our un…
Thermal fluctuations on the freeze-out surface of heavy-ion collisions and their impact on particle correlations
Adrian Skasberg Aasen, Stefan Floerchinger, Giuliano Giacalone +1
Particle momentum distributions originating from a quark-gluon plasma as produced in high-energy nuclear collisions can be influenced by thermal fluctuations in fluid dynamic field…
Structure of Xe through multi-reference energy density functional calculations
Benjamin Bally, Giuliano Giacalone, Michael Bender
Recently, values for the Kumar quadrupole deformation parameters of the nucleus Xe have been computed from the results of a Coulomb excitation experiment, indicating that t…
Separating the impact of nuclear skin and nuclear deformation in high-energy isobar collisions
Jiangyong Jia, Giuliano Giacalone, Chunjian Zhang
Bulk nuclear structure properties, such as radii and deformations, leave distinct signatures in the final state of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Isobaric collisions offer an e…
Precision tests of the nonlinear mode coupling of anisotropic flow via high-energy collisions of isobars
Jiangyong Jia, Giuliano Giacalone, Chunjian Zhang
Valuable information on the dynamics of expanding fluids can be inferred from the response of such systems to perturbations in their initial geometry. We apply this technique in hi…