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STAR Highlights II: Study of Small Systems and the Search for New, Exotic Physics
Jiangyong Jia
Twenty-five years of RHIC operation have produced a uniquely diverse dataset, which enables a broad physics program. This contribution highlights recent STAR results in four areas:…
Collision energy and system size dependence of longitudinal flow decorrelation in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energies
Gaoguo Yan, Maowu Nie, Zhenyu Chen +2
In heavy-ion collisions, the initial collision geometry and its fluctuations drive the collective expansion of final-state hadrons in the transverse plane. However, longitudinal fl…
New constraints on equation of state of hot QCD matter
Lu-Meng Liu, Jinhui Chen, Xu-Guang Huang +3
The longitudinal structure of the quark-gluon plasma(QGP) remains a key challenge in heavy-ion physics. In this Letter, we propose a novel observable, event-by-event mean transvers…
Realizing the Scientific Program with Polarized Ion Beams at EIC
Grigor Atoian, Nigel Buttimore, Giuseppe Ciullo +67
Polarized ion beams at the Electron Ion Collider are essential to address some of the most important open questions at the twenty-first century frontiers of understanding of the fu…
Scaling approach to rigid and soft nuclear deformation through flow fluctuations in high-energy nuclear collisions
Lumeng Liu, Chunjian Zhang, Jinhui Chen +3
The nature of octupole deformation, whether static or vibrational, remains an open question in nuclear physics. Here, we propose a scaling approach to probe this ambiguity by trian…
Nuclear Physics Confronts Relativistic Collisions Of Isobars
Giuliano Giacalone, Jiangyong Jia, Vittorio Somà +43
High-energy collisions involving the isobars Zr and Ru have been performed in 2018 at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) a…
Symmetric-asymmetric collision comparison: disentangling nuclear structure and subnucleonic structure effects for small system flow
Shengli Huang, Jiangyong Jia, Chunjian Zhang
Previous flow measurements in small collision systems were mostly based on highly asymmetric collisions (+Pb, +Au, +Au, He+Au), where both nuclear structure and subn…
Sources of Radial Flow Fluctuations in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Jiangyong Jia
The differential radial flow fluctuation has emerged as a new probe of the quark-gluon plasma. However, its characteristic rise-and-fall pattern with $p_{\mat…
Imprints of octupole collectivity in uranium-238 on relativistic heavy-ion flow observables
Chunjian Zhang, Jiangyong Jia, Jinhui Chen +2
Some atomic nuclei exhibit enhanced octupole collectivity, reflected in finite reflection-asymmetric multipole correlations rather than necessarily in a rigid static pear-shaped gr…
Directly probing existence of -cluster structure in Ne by relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Lu-Meng Liu, Hai-Cheng Wang, Song-Jie Li +5
Can relativistic heavy-ion collisions only probe the global shape of colliding nuclei, or their detailed internal structure as well? Taking Ne as an example, we attempt to d…
Validation and extrapolation of atomic mass with physics-informed fully connected neural network
Yiming Huang, Jinhui Chen, Jiangyong Jia +3
Machine learning offers a powerful framework for validating and predicting atomic mass. We compare three improved neural network methods for representation and extrapolation for at…
Disentangling nuclear structure through multiparticle azimuthal correlations in high-energy isobar collisions
Zaining Wang, Jinhui Chen, Jiangyong Jia +2
Event-by-event fluctuations in the amplitudes of flow harmonics offer a novel approach to probing the initial-state characteristics in heavy-ion collisions. In this study, we condu…
Sources of longitudinal flow decorrelations in high-energy nuclear collisions
Jiangyong Jia, Shengli Huang, Chunjian Zhang +1
The longitudinal structure of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) consists of several components spanning various scales. However, its short-range features are often obscured by final-sta…
Longitudinal structure of the quark-gluon plasma from differently shaped nuclei
Jiangyong Jia, Chunjian Zhang, Shengli Huang
Ultrarelativistic collisions of atomic nuclei produce the quark--gluon plasma (QGP), an extremely hot, dense state of matter. The QGP behaves like a nearly perfect fluid, so its fi…
- 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…
Probe nuclear structure using the anisotropic flow at the Large Hadron Collider
Zhiyong Lu, Mingrui Zhao, Jiangyong Jia +1
Recent studies have shown that the shape and radial profile of the colliding nuclei have strong influences on the initial condition of the heavy ion collisions and the subsequent d…
Impact of nuclear structure on longitudinal flow decorrelations in high-energy isobar collisions
Maowu Nie, Chunjian Zhang, Zhenyu Chen +2
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 decorrela…
Thermalization at the femtoscale seen in high-energy Pb+Pb collisions
Rupam Samanta, Somadutta Bhatta, Jiangyong Jia +2
A collision between two atomic nuclei accelerated at a speed close to that of light creates a dense system of quarks and gluons. Interactions among them are so strong that they beh…
Dense Nuclear Matter Equation of State from Heavy-Ion Collisions
Agnieszka Sorensen, Kshitij Agarwal, Kyle W. Brown +133
The nuclear equation of state (EOS) is at the center of numerous theoretical and experimental efforts in nuclear physics. With advances in microscopic theories for nuclear interact…
Impact of nuclear shape fluctuations in high-energy heavy ion collisions
Aman Dimri, Somadutta Bhatta, Jiangyong Jia
The shape of atomic nuclei is often interpreted to possess a quadrupole deformation that fluctuates around some average profile. We investigate the impact of nuclear shape fluctuat…
Energy dependence of heavy-ion initial condition in isobar collisions
Somadutta Bhatta, Chunjian Zhang, Jiangyong Jia
Collisions of isobar nuclei, those with the same mass number but different structure parameters, provide a new way to probe the initial condition of the heavy ion collisions. Using…
Free spectator nucleons in ultracentral relativistic heavy-ion collisions as a probe of neutron skin
Lu-Meng Liu, Chun-Jian Zhang, Jun Xu +2
Besides the yield ratio of free spectator neutrons produced in ultracentral Zr+Zr to Ru+Ru collisions, we propose that the yield ratio of free…
Impact of nuclear structure on longitudinal flow decorrelations in high-energy isobar collisions
Maowu Nie, Chunjian Zhang, Zhenyu Chen +2
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 decorrela…
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…