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Proton-proton Femtoscopy as a Probe of Short-range Structure in High-Energy O+O Collisions
Baoshan Xi, Pei Li, Chunjian Zhang +3
Short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations are a defining feature of the nuclear many-body wave function, yet they are invisible in the one-body density and therefore inaccessible to…
Nonlinear collective flow reveals the breakdown of quadrupole--hexadecapole scaling in heavy ion collisions
Hadi Mehrabpour, Zahra Sheibani, Li Yan +2
Determining the role of intrinsic hexadecapole deformation () in nuclear structure remains a long-standing challenge. Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide a unique opport…
Nonflow Subtraction Beyond Two-Particle Correlations
Zaining Wang, Jiangyong Jia, Jinhui Chen +3
Establishing collective flow in small collision systems is a crucial and necessary condition for pinning down the minimum conditions for quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation. In two-…
Selected highlights from STAR experiment
Jinhui Chen, Zhenyu Chen, Maowu Nie +13
In this paper, we review recent highlights in heavy-ion collisions and proton-proton collisions at top energies from STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) w…
Evidence for modest octupole deformation in U from high-energy heavy-ion collisions
Chunjian Zhang
We present a novel ``imaging-by-smashing" approach for probing nuclear deformation in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. By analyzing anisotropic-flow () and mean transverse mo…
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…
Imaging shapes of ground-state uranium-238 nuclei in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC
Chunjian Zhang
The shape and orientation of colliding nuclei play a crucial role in determining the initial conditions of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which influence key observables such as ani…
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…
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…
High-order fluctuations of temperature in hot QCD matter
Jinhui Chen, Wei-jie Fu, Shi Yin +1
A new thermodynamic state function is introduced to describe the thermodynamics relevant for the mean transverse momentum fluctuations of charged particles in heavy-ion collisions,…
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…
Energy dependence of transverse momentum fluctuations in Au+Au collisions from a multiphase transport model
Liuyao Zhang, Jinhui Chen, Chunjian Zhang
Event-by-event mean transverse momentum fluctuations () serve as a sensitive probe of initial state overlap geometry and energy density fluctuations in…
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…
Imaging the structure of atomic nuclei in high-energy nuclear collisions from STAR experiment
Chunjian Zhang
In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the extractions of properties of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) are hindered by a limited understanding of its initial conditions, where the nuclear…
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…
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…
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…