7 papers
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 oppor…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…