Directly probing existence of $\alpha$-cluster structure in ${}^{20}$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 ${}^{20}$Ne as an example, we attempt to d…