Determination of the Neutron Skin of from Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

G Giacalone, G Nijs, W van der Schee - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Emergent bulk properties of matter governed by the strong nuclear force give rise to physical
phenomena across vastly different scales, ranging from the shape of atomic nuclei to the …

Imaging shapes of atomic nuclei in high-energy nuclear collisions

Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Atomic nuclei are self-organized, many-body quantum systems bound by strong nuclear
forces within femtometre-scale space. These complex systems manifest a variety of shapes …

Evidence of hexadecapole deformation in uranium-238 at the relativistic heavy ion collider

W Ryssens, G Giacalone, B Schenke, C Shen - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
State-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the quark-gluon plasma are unable to
reproduce the elliptic flow of particles observed at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider …

Imaging the initial condition of heavy-ion collisions and nuclear structure across the nuclide chart

J Jia, G Giacalone, B Bally, JD Brandenburg… - Nuclear Science and …, 2024 - Springer
High-energy nuclear collisions encompass three key stages: the structure of the colliding
nuclei, informed by low-energy nuclear physics, the initial condition, leading to the formation …

Measures of azimuthal anisotropy in high-energy collisions

JY Ollitrault - The European Physical Journal A, 2023 - Springer
Azimuthal anisotropy is a key observation made in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. This
phenomenon has played a crucial role in the development of the field over the last two …

Many-body correlations for nuclear physics across scales: from nuclei to quark-gluon plasmas to hadron distributions

G Giacalone - The European Physical Journal A, 2023 - Springer
It is an experimental fact that multi-particle correlations in the final states of high-energy
nucleus-nucleus collisions are sensitive to collective correlations of nucleons in the wave …

Multireference covariant density-functional theory for the low-lying states of odd-mass nuclei

EF Zhou, XY Wu, JM Yao - Physical Review C, 2024 - APS
We extend multireference covariant density-functional theory (MR-CDFT) based on a
relativistic point-coupling energy functional to describe the low-lying states of odd-mass …

Heavy-Ion Collisions as Probes of Nuclear Structure

N Fortier, S Jeon, C Gale - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.17526, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work, we perform a model-to-data comparison for U+ U and Au+ Au collisions
performed at RHIC at $\sqrt {s_ {\rm NN}} $= $193 $ GeV and $200 $ GeV, using a …

Smooth trends in fermium charge radii and the impact of shell effects

J Warbinek, E Rickert, S Raeder, T Albrecht-Schönzart… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The quantum-mechanical nuclear-shell structure determines the stability and limits of the
existence of the heaviest nuclides with large proton numbers Z≳ 100 (refs. 1, 2, 3). Shell …

Symmetry-projected variational calculations with the numerical suite TAURUS: II. Configuration mixing of symmetry-projected reference states

B Bally, TR Rodríguez - The European Physical Journal A, 2024 - Springer
We present the numerical codes TAURUS pav and TAURUS mix that, combined, perform
the configuration mixing of symmetry-projected real general Bogoliubov quasiparticle states …