Testing microscopic nuclear-density inputs for deformation-sensitive observables in relativistic ${}^{238}$U+${}^{238}$U and ${}^{197}$Au+${}^{197}$Au collisions

Yuan Li, Hao-jie Xu, Dandan Zhang +1

Recent STAR measurements of ${}^{238}$U+${}^{238}$U/${}^{197}$Au+${}^{197}$Au ratios provide a sensitive test of nuclear deformation in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, but the elliptic-…